Abstract
Summary: A Bantu language (Ngombe) is described in which verbal inflexions for time are made by tone without phonetic change. The tone pattern becomes involved frequently because of the frequency with which consonants are dropped, but it is found that the resulting tone pattern can be predicted by a scheme of tone addition. Verbs of every sort—disyllabic, polysyllabic, vowel verbs, monosyllabic—have been examined and found to follow the typical verbal tone pattern. In Ngombe, the tone pattern is more consistently constant than either stress, vowel length or phones.
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