Like most African languages, Swahili phonology is distinguished by the presence of many tones and so-called ''click'' consonants. Syntactically, Swahili is a largely isolating OSV language, although in certain tenses it manifests a split-ergative case system. | Like most African languages, Swahili phonology is distinguished by the presence of many tones and so-called ''click'' consonants. Syntactically, Swahili is a largely isolating OSV language, although in certain tenses it manifests a split-ergative case system. |