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Tswa language

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Tswa verbs change according to status (affirmative/negative), mood (indicative/potential), aspect, tense, number, person and class. The usual three persons used in the Bantu group apply, and the first and second persons plural are maximally inclusive. The class link is usually written as a separate
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Though Tswa does have a subjunctive, it does not change the standard '-a' at the end of a verb to an '-e' like most of the surrounding Bantu languages, unless it is used as an implied imperative in a dependent clause – a peculiarity it shares with the Tsonga and Ronga. The 'xi-' class, unlike its
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Tswa uses a variant of the Latin alphabet previously used for Tsonga. It is partly based on those developed by the Portuguese colonists and Methodist missionaries to the region. The first major transliterator for the Tswa language into English was the Swede J. A. Persson, who consolidated the
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Tswa is a Bantu language and thus has a noun class system and verbal system easily recognisable to Bantu speakers throughout Eastern and Southern Africa. In general the system is the same as in most Bantu languages. The following details are more specific.
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is sometimes used in words imported from Zulu, in which case it is pronounced in various ways, the clicks of Zulu not being native to the Tswa language. There are also several compounds, which include lateral fricatives.
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Instead of genders there are eight classes which have a similar but more complex role, where each noun begins with a class prefix as below:
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seeming equivalents in other languages, more closely mirrors the Nguni 'isi-' in that it has a strongly diminutive use.
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Like most Bantu languages, all syllables end in vowels or nasals. Tone is important but is rarely written.
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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word, as in Tsonga and Ronga. Otherwise the paradigm is organised as follows:
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tools, means, languages, diminutives, defects, verbal nouns
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Index

Tshwa language (Bantu)
Dzongkha
Mozambique
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Southern Bantu
Tswa–Ronga
ISO 639-3
tsc
Glottolog
tswa1255
Guthrie code
Linguasphere
99-AUT-da
IPA
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Unicode
Help:IPA
Bantu language
Mozambique
Ronga
Tsonga
Tswa–Ronga

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