Stilio/Bantu

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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