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Notes on Form and Structure in Bantu Speech
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
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An outstanding characteristic of Bantu speech is economy of form combined with flexibility in the use of forms. This economy in word form contributes to simplicity of expression, but can nevertheless be baffling to non-Bantu people unless flexibility in function is accorded its due recognition.
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page 5 note 1 A process by which two sounds in juxtaposition or close proximity tend to become identical or to acquire common characteristics; see Bantu Terminology, Doke, C. M., p. 55Google Scholar.
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page 9 note 1 In some languages no -A is required:
Sw. Zilete moja moja. Bring them one at a time. K 174. Tiga kuoya cīothe hamwe, oya kīmwe kīmwe.
Do not take them up all together, take them up one by one.
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