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Tone-patterns in Zimbabwean Ndebele
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Zimbabwean Ndebele and Zulu might be likened, in a very broad sense, to American English and British English, in their relationship. Mzilikazi and his few followers left Zululand in 1822, and in the 1840s founded a new nation, over 1,000 km. to the north. There are certain differences in pronunciation and tone. Divergence is likely to have been bilateral: while Ndebele shows clear signs of non-Zulu influence in certain respects, Zulu on the other hand is probably not quite the same today as it was in 1822
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 77 - 135
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