|
Sukuma is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken in an area south east of Victoria Nyanza in a country between Mwanza, Shinyanga, Lake Eyasi and 2 degrees 20 minutes south, 55 degrees east.〔Margaret Arminel Bryan, compiler, ''The Bantu Languages of Africa'', Oxford University Press, 1959.〕 In an orthography using roman script without special letters, and resembling that used for Swahili, it has been used in Bible translation 〔''The Gospel in Many Tongues'', The British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1965.〕 and in religious literature.〔''Kitabo sha Sala na sha Mimbo'', Diochesi ya Mwanza, edited / approved by Bishop Renatus Butibubage, 1963.〕 Dialects (''KɪmunaSukuma'' in the west, ''GɪmunaNtuzu/GɪnaNtuzu'' in the northeast, ''Jìnàkɪ̀ɪ̀yâ/JimunaKɪɪyâ'' in the southeast) are easily mutually intelligible.〔The prefixes ''kɪ-, gɪ-, ji-'' are dialectical variants.〕 ==Phonology== There are seven vowel qualities, which occur long and short:〔Rahma Muhdhar, 2006, ''Verb Extensions in Kisukuma, Jinakiiya dialect'', MS dissertation, UDSM〕 —which are written —may be closer to , and closer to . Sukuma has gone through Dahl's Law (''ɪdàtʊ́'' 'three', from proto-Bantu ''-tatʊ'') and has voiceless nasal consonants. It is not clear whether should best be considered stops or affricates, or whether they are even palatal. Syllables are V or CV. There are four tones on short vowels: high, low, rising, and falling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sukuma language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|