Difference between revisions of "Swahili"

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(Swahili has no clicks or tones; source: The World's Major Languages)
(most definitely *not* isolating, and not ergative, or OSV; same source)
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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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Syntactically, Swahili is largely SVO.
  
 
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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 largely SVO.