Stilio/Bantu
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Bantu Characteristics
No coda consonants | No |
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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
- (wu-) sing. Human beings
- (ba-) pl. Human beings
- (mu-) sing. Plants and body parts
- (mi-) pl. Plants and body parts
- (ri-) sing. Fruits, eggs, stones, sun, eye, tooth, horn, gigantic objects, and augmentatives
- (ma) coll. Plural liquids, groups of peoples, animals and inanimate objects
- (ki-) sing. tools, furniture, methods, kinds of, manners of
- (bi-) pl. tools, furniture, methods, kinds of manners of
- (ñ-) sing. beasts, birds, reptiles, fish
- (ti-) pl. beasts, birds, reptiles, fish
- (tu-) pl./coll. LONG THINGS, rivers, tongues, languages, country, mt ranges
- (bu-) pl./coll. diminutives
- (ku-) sing. feminine, tender, honorific
- (bu-) sing./coll. "-ness"
- (ku-) sing./loc. doing things, infinitives, location, to, from
- (pa-) loc. place, here, on, time
- (mu-) loc. in-ness, inside
- (gu-) sing. unusualness
- (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