Abstract
The Study of Tone in Kinguu Infinitive Verbs
Highlights
Ethnic community languages are still facing a very strong challenge of not being documented enough, regardless of their unique features, majority of them are not well known
Data in this study was collected from six different people by using interviewsof which the researcher guided the informants on the prepared corpus of Kiswahili infinitives to be pronounced in Kinguu by the Kinguu speakers, and the pronunciations were recorded for marking tone
The infinitive stems with five syllables display tone copying and spreading behaviors, where the first syllable of the stem is copied to the penultimate, again the first syllable of the stem from the initial position of the stem spread to one more syllable on the right side of the word and before it reaches the penultimate syllable is blocked by one Low tone. 5.6 Infinitive Stems with Six Syllables The preceded analysis was based on Kinguu infinitive stems with five syllables
Summary
Ethnic community languages are still facing a very strong challenge of not being documented enough, regardless of their unique features, majority of them are not well known. The origin of Wanguu may be traced back from the larger scale movement which involved split of the Bantu family into dialectical continuum and was out of that movement Wanguu spread in the entire area of Kilindi and some parts of Morogoro (Petzell, 2012). They are surrounded by other ethnic communities like Wazigula in the East, Wakaguu and Wasagala in the South-West, Wadoe and Wakwere in the South-East, Wakami and Waluguru in the South and the Maasai and Okiek in the North (Petzell, 2012). The researcher used anecdote narrations in data collection of which the informants were given chances to give stories in Kinguu, and the researcher searched for relevant additional information from those stories
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