Stilio/Bantu

Bantu Characteristics

No coda consonants	No
No gemination	No
Agglutinative	Yes
1 or 2 syllable roots	Yes
Prefixing noun-class	Yes
Noun-class indicates number	Yes
Concord/Agreement	Yes
Noun-classes are not genders	Yes
Decimal	No
VO	Yes
2s imper. is the root	Yes
Preference for CV	Yes
5 vowel base with ATR	Yes

• Agreement is between adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, pronouns, verbs, prepositions and even sometimes adverbs
• Noun classes common to Bantu languages are
  1. (wu-) sing. Human beings
  2. (ba-) pl. Human beings
  3. (mu-) sing. Plants and body parts
  4. (mi-) pl. Plants and body parts
  5. (ri-) sing. Fruits, eggs, stones, sun, eye, tooth, horn, gigantic objects, and augmentatives
  6. (ma) coll. Plural liquids, groups of peoples, animals and inanimate objects
  7. (ki-) sing. tools, furniture, methods, kinds of, manners of
  8. (bi-) pl. tools, furniture, methods, kinds of manners of
  9. (ñ-) sing. beasts, birds, reptiles, fish
  10. (ti-) pl. beasts, birds, reptiles, fish
  11. (tu-) pl./coll. LONG THINGS, rivers, tongues, languages, country, mt ranges
  12. (bu-) pl./coll. diminutives
  13. (ku-) sing. feminine, tender, honorific
  14. (bu-) sing./coll. "-ness"
  15. (ku-) sing./loc. doing things, infinitives, location, to, from
  16. (pa-) loc. place, here, on, time
  17. (mu-) loc. in-ness, inside
  18. (gu-) sing. unusualness
  19. (ga-) pl. unusualness
• Negation changes the verb -a to -i, -e is subjunctive, -o and -u other
• Infinitive is ku-
• The only postposition is "in" -ni/-nyi/-n-/-ñ
• -ka detransitivizes something, -ña imperfective
• -sa is causative
• -ula reverses a verb, -ana is reciprocal action, -ta reflexive
• -ile is the preterite