Re: Grie Ka #1 (was Re: ,Language' in language name?)

> > Or would anyone on the list provide me the interesting examples of
> > languages where inflection is done by changing the begining of words?
Elliott Lash wrote:
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> Then of course there's Swahili, the more well known one:
>
> -penda: to like > nitawapenda: I will like them
>                 > alikupenda: He liked you
Swahili being of course a deviant member of the Bantu group,
which gets its name from that behavior:

        muntu (Sw mtu)  man
        bantu (Sw watu) men

Does anyone know what language supplied the word <bantu>?
My dictionary just says `Bantu'!

Swahili has a large Arabic vocabulary (from sea traders)
and is, I heard once, the only non-tonal Bantu language.


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