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− | ==Verbs== |
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− | :"uyambona" |
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− | :"u-ya-m-bon-a" |
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− | :''he is seeing her '' |
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− | :*u - subject morpheme |
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− | :*ya - tense marker of present tense (the so called "long form") |
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− | :*m - subject morpheme |
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− | :*-bona - verb stem consisting of bon - verb root and -a the categorial morpheme<ref>the categorial morpheme is the last part of the verb stem indicating certain grammatical and semantic information</ref> |
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− | :u-baba u-bon-a um-ntwana |
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− | :''the father sees the child'' |
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− | :u-baba aka-bon-i um-ntwana |
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− | :''the father doesn't see the child'' |
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− | :u-baba u-zo-bon-a um-ntwana |
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− | :''the father will see the child'' |
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− | :*zo - nearer future |
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− | :u-yo-m-bon-a |
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− | :''he will see it'' |
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− | :*yo - far future |
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− | :u-bon-ile |
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− | :''he saw'' |
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− | :u-m-bon-ile |
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− | :''he saw it'' |
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− | :wa-bon-a |
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− | :''he saw it long ago'' |
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− | :aka-m-bon-anga |
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− | :''he didn't see it'' |
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− | :*aka is the negative morpheme for nouns in class 1 (like ubaba) |
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− | :aku-zu-m-bon-a |
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− | :''he will not see it'' |
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− | :ba-ya-bon-ana |
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− | :''they see each other '' |
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− | :*-ana indicates reflexive |
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− | ==Notes== |
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− | <references/> |
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− | ==External links== |
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− | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_language Wikipedia: Zulu language] |
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== Resources == |
== Resources == |
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This section lists resources available on isiZulu. These are not associated with apertium, for the most part. |
This section lists resources available on isiZulu. These are not associated with apertium, for the most part. |
Revision as of 10:40, 4 January 2018
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
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/592173.pdf Observations on the Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Other Particles of the Isizulu and Its
Cognate Languages - Lewis Grout]