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A comparative study of the influence of the nasal prefix `N' ( from UR- BANTU "NI-") on succeeding consonants at the beginning of some lexical items in Zulu, Xhosa and Southern Sotho

Submitted in fulfillment for the Degree Master of Arts in the Department of African Languages at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1990. / In any language, words are uttered systematically according to
certain rules. Each language has therefore its own system.
Language may be defined as "a system of utterances governed by a
set of.rules". In a language there are partial systems such as
Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, etc. Wnen these partial systems
are put together they form a unique system of a particular
language. Phonetics is the study of a single speech sound. A
word is made up of a number of phonetic units.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/974
Date January 1990
CreatorsLephallo, Amos Thabo
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf

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