Original Articles

Pre-Tsonga noun class prefixes and verb suffixes

Published in: South African Journal of African Languages
Volume 5 , issue 3 , 1985 , pages: 69–71

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1985.10586594

Author(s): E. , J.M. Baumbach ,

Abstract

Pre-Tsonga had noun classes 1–18, except classes 12/13. Specific prefixes in class 1a developed during the Proto- South-Eastern era, and classes 5a/6–5a during the Pre- Tsonga era. Some of the Pre-Tsonga verb suffixes are direct reflexes from Proto-Bantu, but others probably originated during the Proto-Nguni period.

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