Difference between revisions of "Swahili"
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A [[Bantu]] language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili served as a trade language across Africa, and therefore is known today by millions of people in many countries. | A [[Bantu]] language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili served as a trade language across Africa, and therefore is known today by millions of people in many countries. | ||
| − | + | Syntactically, Swahili is a largely isolating OSV language, although in certain tenses it manifests a split-ergative case system. | |
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Revision as of 08:22, March 22, 2007
Template:Stub A Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili served as a trade language across Africa, and therefore is known today by millions of people in many countries.
Syntactically, Swahili is a largely isolating OSV language, although in certain tenses it manifests a split-ergative case system.