Zulu
Contents
Resources
This section lists resources available on isiZulu. These are not associated with apertium, for the most part.
General
Machine translation
Dictionaries and phrasebooks
- isiZulu.net: Bilingual Zulu-English dictionary
- Oxford isiZulu dictionary
- English-Zulu Dictionary
- Common phrases
- Common phrases
- Colenso Zulu-English Dictionary
- Döhne Zulu-Kafir Dictionary
Grammars
- The Isizulu: A grammar of the Zulu language - Rev. Lewis Grout
- The Zulu-Kafir language simplified for beginners - Rev. Charles Roberts,
- First Steps in Zulu-Kafir - John Colenso
- A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages - W. H. I. Bleek
- A Zulu Grammar for Beginners - P. A. Stuart
Morphology
Miscellaneous
Academic Papers
- Linguistic Assumptions and Lexicographical Traditions in the African Languages - E.B. van Wyk
- Observations on the Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Other Particles of the Isizulu and Its Cognate Languages - Lewis Grout
- A re-evaluation of tenses in isiZulu - Groenwald
- A New Way to Lemmatize Adjectives in a User-friendly Zulu–English Dictionary - GM De Schryver
Grammar
Verbs
- "uyambona"
- "u-ya-m-bon-a"
- he is seeing her
- u - subject morpheme
- ya - tense marker of present tense (the so called "long form")
- m - subject morpheme
- -bona - verb stem consisting of bon - verb root and -a the categorial morpheme[1]
- u-baba u-bon-a um-ntwana
- the father sees the child
- u-baba aka-bon-i um-ntwana
- the father doesn't see the child
- u-baba u-zo-bon-a um-ntwana
- the father will see the child
- zo - nearer future
- u-yo-m-bon-a
- he will see it
- yo - far future
- u-bon-ile
- he saw
- u-m-bon-ile
- he saw it
- wa-bon-a
- he saw it long ago
- aka-m-bon-anga
- he didn't see it
- aka is the negative morpheme for nouns in class 1 (like ubaba)
- aku-zu-m-bon-a
- he will not see it
- ba-ya-bon-ana
- they see each other
- -ana indicates reflexive
Notes
- ↑ the categorial morpheme is the last part of the verb stem indicating certain grammatical and semantic information
