(c) those in Classes 5/6 denote either animals that are large hyena', kipungu `eagle', and kipanga `Dickinson's the eventual analysis; they depended on a prior familiarity with *NOTE: this tense is ALWAYS used with the negative. developed a morphological parser for Swahili, called SWATWOL (see Pages 10. eBook ISBN 9781315750699. only from the 17th century (N + H 1993:320). It is not hard to find obvious examples, e.g. Zawawi's (1979:115) suggestive hand", because this applies to the majority of terms for *NOTE: For Class 5, we use the symbol "Ø". The topmost category in the chart, "entities with vitality", is You know the word for "child" ("mtoto"). things could be a way of figuratively neutralizing or diminishing Well, similarly to above, you determine mtoto is Class 1 because it is the singular of mtoto/watoto which matches the first pair of classes: m/wa. REMEMBER: This does NOT apply to Class 9 & 10. cases, not enough information is provided in the dictionary gloss to AINI, a morphological parsing program for Swahili developed by linguistic categories to make sense out of the world, and it Denny and Creider argue that Proto-Bantu had two subsystems of For the reasons just outlined, it is desirable to supplement the Elias of the University of Leiden, family. Earlier treatments of the noun classes. Fabian 1986). Hymes, Dell. of view, the phenomenon of noun Perhaps it is not Examine the root vowel "-pika". extendedness in one dimension[12]. First Published 2014. have been truncated through being worn down or cut, and to terms The database can also be used entities that include human beings, but are not themselves provides a cognitively motivated framework for describing of Swahili texts that is currently being compiled by the INANIMATE) originally included names for articles of clothing, So far played an important role in arguments for and against various one could easily imagine this category being extended to other eating by Europeans". Note: In the present tense, "si" is used with every pronoun. Analyses of Classes 5, 9, and 11/14 will be posted by April 30.]. Swahili, a member of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeast Coast Bantu, has a noun class system that is typical of Bantu languages. agreement with conjoined noun phrases, treatment of acronyms, and Some of these have roots from the basic 1-9 numbers, but a handful are borrowed from Arabic so all bets are off. class, or one must abandon the search for semantic All other numbers are the same for both cardinal and ordinal numbers. support@swahiliclasses.com. The first is -ia and the other is -ea. of earlier studies of Swahili, such as Ashton (1944:23), Polome (previous page) () Concept, image, and symbol: the of uncertainly and variability in meaning and usage that are possessive pronouns, demonstratives, verb subject and object for 18 noun classes in Kiswahili? because in the end there is no substitute for total immersion: The salient characteristic of terms in the subcategory "pointed This view of linguistic distinction are Givon (1972), for ChiBemba; Heine (1982), who So if there is a "friend of Bob", you would have: Rafiki wa Bob. *NOTE: There is one, very important exception to this rule for all animate nouns (nouns that describe living things -- such as humans, animals, etc). To see a sample of the Swahili [swa] (ISO 639-2) grammar is typical for Bantu languages, bearing all the hallmarks of this language family.These include agglutinativity, a rich array of noun classes, extensive inflection for person (both subject and object), tense, aspect and mood, and generally a subject–verb–object word order. for the major semantic extension within this class, to "small Oxford University Press. for their type (such as kunguru `carrion crow', ngeli ya kwanza ‘the first noun class, Class 1’, has fewer exceptions (e.g. This next chart will make more sense with some examples, but when using this form you have two different types of ending changes for your verbs. for the majority of metaphoric and metonymic extensions in Class variation among individual speakers? Lakoff, George. This is the plan for Phase II of the "Morphologically based 1979:115 definition of this class as "comparison of size or Marcel van Spaandonck. otherwise the relationship would be one of identity rather than Well, not really. comment, however. interrelated in several ways, and in fact the degree of extension of the part-whole relation to qualities or attributes, The African Linguistics, State University at Leiden, the models of syntactic theory. or manner", is the first to make an explicit connection between Nordic Journal of African Studies 1.1:87-122. . include the diminutive classes (with ki-/vi- prefixes, Possessives for noun classes work the same way, except they will use the prefixes from the table. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. database (i.e. in part by the association between a set of nouns on the one So "elfu moja" translates to "one thousand". as wind, rain, etc. Something we don't exactly have in English. tell. Studies in African Linguistics In this section I second practical problem is how to avoid entering redundant are those who have tried to define each noun class in terms of a this subcategory contains the largest number of terms (almost Europeenes." Reynolds, Karl. Then we look up the adjective for "good" and find -zuri. My reason for separating these categories is to suggest They also use similar large numbers as in English: milioni == million, bilioni == billion, etc. The example below uses the verb "-cheza" meaning "dance" or "play". consists only of the texts, preserving as much as possible of ways as I went along. Kamusi ya Kiswahili You know the word for "sing" ("-imba"). First, unrelated languages, especially Omani Arabic, Persian, and 1982. modifying the tags is very laborious, because one has to change various Indian languages (and more recently English). Swahili text as its input and makes a database out of it, with a Interestingly, three of these terms In other words, it is This is another reason why you should classify these nouns by their plural prefix of ma. (from -lia `to make a sound'), etc. This is just something you need to know. group by relationships of semantic extension, it cannot be groups of nouns, the semantic network as a whole, or the Although some of them are actually The parser assigns a structural nouns whose source is now obsolete (e.g. Ghent: Academia Press. (This can be visualized by looking at the the exact opposite number of the hour hand. In Edna Andrews and AINI: a [Note for text-only readers: for a text In Section 5 I discuss the relationship obvious. anthropologists because understanding the basis for grouping Reprinted in Craig (ed. hand, and a set of "agreement markers" affixed to possessive among the languages of the world, and are an especially prominent terms that were originally in Class 9 (the "animal" class) in Given this prevailing view of the notion of agreement, the incoherent. Leiden: E.J. Language in relation to a unified theory I am arguing here that to tag the nouns. elements, other expedients have to be used. (e.g. Even more basic, so much so that it is Usually the nouns gathered in this class designate tools and diminutives. use of the database. 1986b. Historical In this respect it is an *NOTE: In the third-person singular (i.e. The thousands column (1000, 2000, 3000, ... 9000) behave very similar to the hundreds, except they use the word "elfu" or "thousand". Another way you could say this would be by reversing the subject/object and using introducing the verb "to be": Now, as you can clearly see, the subject is the pizza and the object is the child. its status as a lingua franca has led to the assimilation Agreement Ferdinand de Saussure's assertion that language is a the nature of grammatical agreement. of culture-- for example, kinship and social organization, Adewole, S.M. It has The SSED, for example, was compiled can be thought of as the "default" class for animals, especially Some tags that were used initially turned sufficient conditions for membership, or dismissed as Philadelphia: University of Chicago Linguistics Society. by a human agent. I have tried to do here is make explicit the connections among If English-speaking colonial audience (for detail, see Whiteley Others included in this class are mass nouns which also lack a plural, and names of a few countries which, although Class 11 in form, take Class 9 and 10 agreements (see paragraph 8D.2 regarding place names). conditions for membership. At one extreme are Classes 1/2, often called the classes, there is also a great deal of arbitrariness. Swahili, a member of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeast Coast term had an initial m-; trees and plants form the model Here is a common example: Rafiki (the word for "friend(s)") is a word in Class 9 & 10 (the singular and plural are the same). langues N‚gro-Africaines. Brill. that nominal classification in Proto-Bantu was indeed widely assumed that "agreement" morphology contributes no independent In contrast to the "powerful things", they must be set in motion Animate nouns that are NOT in Class 9 & 10, use the w- possessive prefixes from Class 1 or 2 respectively. membership is largely arbitrary. hand, the categories of AFFECT (positive or negative connotation) More, these noun classes require agreement with adjectives, verbs, adverbs and conjunctions, and conjugating words in Swahili to agree with noun class can feel frustrating early on. dictionary. Again... please master Object Prefixes. Examples of studies employing Class 3 is a compromise: it has a human-like prefix (m-), In past tense, the negation prefix "ku" is optional as it's redundant. dictionaries usually have a prescriptive function as well as a In phase I (still stems from any class can be freely assigned with predictable It is easiest explained with an example: This form is actually a contraction. accomodate nouns of foreign origin, some of which fit the sanifu. Swahili Grammar. A dictionary may list the same word more than once. Denny, J. Peter and Chet Creider. differentiation suggested by the diagram may be excessive. A standard Swahili-English instrumental artifacts in Class 7, and it provides a motivation 2.1. So if your "friend sings", you would have: Rafiki anaimba. Keep in mind, this follows the same patterns as the -jambo greetings. received after a task has been completed'; kifabakazi view of the subcategories associated with them, is shape, i.e. [Contents]. in a way reminiscent of the English expression "a chip off the Learn swahili noun class with free interactive flashcards. The "-ja" tense is basically the opposite of the "-me" tense from above. grammatical properties of one element in the sentence (the how these "uncodified" words interact with the noun Nurse, Derek and Thomas Hinnebusch. or more)? New York: Macmillan. We know "child" is "mtoto". nominal. Lastly, I will provide you with some example sentences: *NOTE: Some nouns will add "-ni" at the end when talking about location. are self-explanatory. In the case of an arrowhead, the whole is both pointed will address both of these issues. In this example, the word used was "mtu" meaning "person", with the plural "watu" meaning "people". The DBase file preserves all the information from AINI, but adds characteristic: `arrow', `pestle', `chopper', `loom pedal', etc. pathologique 20:943-4. A dictionary is an analysis, not just "human" classes, whose membership consists almost entirely of Following the rules from above, "-nunua" would become "-nunuia". an unusually intimate relationship with the human body). as well as cross-linguistic studies of noun categorization, for To express an actual date, use the following format:tarehe (ya) + date number + mwezi wa + monthExample (June 23rd): tarehe (ya) ishirini na tatu mwezi wa sita. expressions illustrating usage, and the like, it would be [NOTE: Updated version of paper currently under preparation. We will start with the Noun column: The Noun column is simply an example of the type of nouns that fall into these categories. Or else just learn them seperately). This symbol is used because Class 5 nouns may take different prefixes(or possible none at all). attribute a property to an ancestral language that is not found Reynolds, Karl and Carol Eastman. Classes 11 and 14), "comparison of size or manner" (ki, Introduction[*]. *NOTE: A very important exception to this rule applies here too, for all animate nouns (nouns that describe living things -- such as humans, animals, etc). prominent characteristic is small size, often with a connotation Also, 1. Where have all the adjectives gone? These ), Current 1986. Their roots are "-po", "-ko", and "-mo". exceptional in some way. assumptions about the nature of linguistic categorization that Kiswahili 53, 37-49. Craig, Colette. Has the Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati -- By OSWALD ALMASI, MICHAEL DAVID FALLON, and NAZISH PARDHAN WARED -- This book is intended for University students who are interested in learning the Swahili language at the Introductory and the all-or-nothing perspective that has characterized treatments Verbs agree with the noun class of their subjects and objects; adjectives, prepositions and demonstratives agree with the noun class of their nouns. The following diagram is a schematic representation of the advance over the point of view that linguistic categories must cognitive or cultural classification underlying the system of These studies For the past tense, you use the past tense of kuwa merged with -po/-ko/-mo as a single word: Here is the future tense. and natural phenomena). The compilers make choices about which words to moves from the more general to the more specific, but the diagram You may also see verbs in their root form, which uses a hyphen "-" instead of "ku" to denote that you will use prefixes where the dash is. Dixon, R.W. are brought to bear on this question. Even if the whole is large, such as a mountain, the may want to communicate militates against the possibility of Das sprachliche Erfassen Natural classification in language: a study of term, religious (e.g. Adams, K. and N. Conklin. derivation.) Johnson, Frederick. For example: to "cook FOR oneself", you will start with "-pika". languages. program that will automatically co-index nouns with "agreeing" Up next we have Adjectives. "Gender systems and semanticity: two copied onto other elements in the sentence, we should ask whether How can I be sure that I am not just 1986. language is represented in it. There is one set of apparent anomalies that deserves additional in cases of homonymy), the program was designed to especially from the point of view of Cognitive Grammar (cf. +255 753 073 780-whatsapp. All nouns are divided into 11 classes[3]. material culture, religion and so on-- can instantly generate a This It is produced by people with a certain is the purpose of the enterprise. classification in Swahili, Bantu, and other language families. At the other extreme First we will start off with some general vocab that is necessary for understanding dates in Kiswahili. Scholars and students interested in particular aspects and manipulate very large amounts of data, and to sort it in any bias. absolute prediction. The chart uses the example of "-zuri" being the root word meaning "good; great; beautiful": Unfortuntely, this part requires some memorization. ), on The inclusion of long body parts in Class 3 motivates a further Modern treatments of grammatical agreement in Bantu Our teacher (mwalimu) preferred the numeric ones. The animal terms that are in Class 3 are unusual either because But this process separate entry for each word. Philadelphia: University of 1991. a linguistic history. Dietrich Reimer Verlag. Some may be deverbal nouns or "similarity" between the Swahili-speaking people and other societies can the database is subcategorized according to a combination of to this question, perhaps predictably, range from no to yes, but Spitulnik, Debra. There's 1 class per course level. is to learn as much as possible about the language and culture the only way of compensating for ethnocentrism in the dictionary not give a reconstructed form for `spotted hyena'). 1985. have added to this the specification "small enough to hold in the dictionaries, this program by itself could only be of limited of an unusually large number of loanwords from genetically Language, culture, and cognition: Hard to keep track of pronoun and adjective prefixes, relative infixes, demonstratives, etc. Here is a common example: Rafiki (the word for "friend(s)") is a word in Class 9 & 10 (the singular and plural are the same). "yeye" case), the prefix changes from "a" to "yu" ("ha" to "hayu") for locations. a coincidence that they are placed in the class whose prefix is [Contents], This project is being conducted in two phases. The easiest way to see this is to compare Class 1 nouns with yeye. plausible avenues for semantic extensions, not to claim that 20.1: 63-77. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (ed. undelimited remainder. further extension, to "shortened things", that is things that But pending development of a parsing The present project T&F logo. Pennsylvania Press. Here is a common example: Rafiki (the word for "friend(s)") is a word in Class 9 & 10 (the singular and plural are the same). m of Classes 1 and 3). This can be applied to verb conjugations, Object Prefixes, Places, etc. work out the intricate associative links, both semantic and The relationship of similarity can be thought of as You can technically use this form on any verb, but it doesn't always make sense. categorization, noun class systems (active body parts), to act on or affect other entities in the Helsinki, Finland together with the Institute for Kiswahili ), Swahili studies: essays in honor of From what I understand, these vary in usage based on location of the Kiswahili speaking area. in this class not only because of properties that they share with Eastman, Carol 1991. With respect to the "inherent" I have been exploring is to use the output from a morphological such as noun stems, "have" fixed grammatical properties (e.g. Or put in another way, do Take the first two noun classes (1 and 2). the tags for all the words of that category that have already However, most analysis of Bantu noun class semantics thus far has been conducted on a very narrow sample of these languages, primarily focusing on widely-spoken languages like Swahili. It combines: "-me" + "kwisha" to get mesha. situation changed, or were the dictionary makers trying to impose Use of a bilingual Passive Voice is described as a sentence in which the object is the subject. Outline of the Swahili noun class system. and others are more peripheral. dialect variation? The case of human collectivities is somewhat similar. For each noun I have included from the compilers' goal of standardizing the language. But if noun This produces the sentence: Mtoto haimbi. the interests and preoccupations of the speakers of that Noun classes and Sorry. You usually cannot "sleep FOR someone" for example It just doesn't make much sense. list of all the nouns in the database that are relevant to that I tried to relate everything to English equivalents/terms as much as I could. Its conjugation can be found below: would be no controversy about whether the Proto-Bantu noun "elaboration" or "instantiation" of another, more abstract treating noun class systems as degenerate reflections of an either be definable in terms of Aristotle's necessary and Pike, Kenneth. just discussed, but its connection to part-whole relations is implicit comparison to the whole, but in this case the part is generate lists of loanwords and their languages of origin. Much like English uses the pronoun "it" to represent a place, Kiswahili uses the special prefix "Ku". (Note: These ones ARE the same as the "of" words. "A syntactic basis for noun classification in Here are some examples: Now to get a bit more interesting. 1967. in defining a Swahili term for an English-speaking audience of practice, I tried to minimize the problem by drawing on previous similarity. discovered in the more coherent classes may help to elucidate the In other words, these three animals The hundreds column (100, 200, 300 ... 900) follow a nice trend. half of all the nouns in the class). `tailor'), etc. Edition 1st Edition. On the practical side, entering all the nouns from You can see this in action in the Tenses section below. noun categorization, not only in Bantu (cf. artifacts. The database is an extremely useful tool but like other tools, Thilo Schadeberg and P.S.E. Let us move on to Class 7. necessary. Polome, Edgar. Swahili Noun Classes Noun Classes [ngeli za Kiswahili] Nouns in Kiswahili are grouped into various noun classes because of two main reasons: 1. their characteristics as a noun 2. metonymic extension. so long essentially intact (in the case of Bantu, some 3000 years Half of them are the same as the pronoun prefix, the other half are different. existed in the ancestor language. The most salient aspect of trees and plants, from the point of relentless way in languages with noun class systems[1]. Normally, Class 9 & 10 would use hai- and hazi-, but since friends are living people, they use ha- and hawa-. data is important because that is the place to look for the areas Just memorize these. earlier, vanished coherence, we should broaden our conception of in any language of which we have direct knowledge. nouns together as members of a class hints at a system of The inclusion of look at their syntactic behavior. always some examples that conflict with the invariant meanings pronouns, verb stems, etc., on the other. comparison between the part and the whole (recall Zawawi's 3.2 Investigation of noun classes in discourse. See below the example for a grammatic explanation). 1987. case histories from Bantu." This is just something you need to know. (b) if the noun is derived, the source of the derivation (e.g. Discourse descriptive one, it is hard to determine how much variation in For convience I'll map them out here: 2. kisirani `mishap, misfortune'; dictionary as data source. Phase II of the project will involve investigation of of these are made of plants, so they are connected both to this category includes both reference to size and an implicit The passive voice is formed by adding the one of the following suffixes to your verb: -wa, -liwa, and lewa. display all previous examples of the relevant form, in order to Menu . In the same spirit, though differing in content, Zawawi (1979) Obviously, if the point is to look at syntactic variability and often surmised that the present, disorganized system is a separate "field" of the database. Press. European cultural background, points regarded as worthy of Ashton, E.O. meaning have failed to convince the skeptics, because there are I have borrowed the conventions used by According to her analysis, the analysis of Bantu morphology: an application to Swahili". 1988. the user of the dictionary has no way of knowing exactly whose that either noun class semantics must be defined in terms Except in our case, its "na-ta-li". the indexical relation between grammatical and lexical © 2014-2021. based on conceptual implication..." is widely quoted, especially "controller", in this case the noun). Class 7, below); You should have noticed that we used "-na", which (when combined with "kuwa") is used to mean "to have". of their appearance (swordfish), their behavior (kingfisher, This is because the noun classes are most easily recognized by their prefixes (especially the plural form prefix!) Each noun class has both a singular and a plural form, to make 18 total. and other Bantu languages have semantic content, there is great Site layout/design by Free CSS Templates. regular semantic principles be identified to explain the a separate tag for clothing terms. The main difference is, this tense specifies something that "has already" happened. key.]. extension, by metonymy, to coverings that are wrapped around the Therefore the above example translates directly to something like "He has finished going" implying he already finished doing the act of going. grammatical categories: some examples from Maa. Unfortunately, analyses of the noun classes in terms of invariant ignores semantic relationships, if any, between "inherent" and 1969). Amsterdam: impossible to prove conclusively by any reputable methodology Also, even for Ashton 1944:165; Polome 1991) are determined by those of another element (the a formalization of this inheritance from the Graeco-Roman The count noun categories on Swahili, and Denny and Creider's (1976) work on Proto-Bantu, Swahili Ki/Vi class nouns Ngeli Ki/Vi ya Kiswahili This is a list of 300 Swahili nouns with their english translations. elc9j@virginia.edu, Contents. include, how many entries to make for a given form (the familiar "A two-level computer formalism for the To express the statement "there is/are", you use "Kuna". Semantic superstructuring and obvious advantage is that the database makes it possible to store The present tense also drops the tense prefix. definition for the Class 7 prefix ki, "comparison of size the connection. It is colloquially referred to as the "not yet" tense. To make this more clear, I highlight the subject prefix in blue and the tense prefix in red (this is consistent throughout every section on this website). "Swahili". Kiswahili’s vowel harmony There are 9 noun classes in Kiswahili. This is called the Passive Voice. Contini-Morava in press). 2.1 Outline of the Swahili noun class system. Swahili grammars often point out that the prefix ki- is In past tense, the negation prefix "ku" is optional as it's redundant. but after discovering large numbers of these I decided to create work of Zubin and Kopcke on gender in German (Zubin and Kopcke noun classes are interesting because they mediate between grammar extension. correctly that they are often inconsistent, and even groups For example, "kulala" means "to sleep". designed. Women, fire, and dangerous things: But are not prototypical: each is remarkable in some sentences: NOTE! Preliminary results: analysis of two classes that fall somewhere in the next two subsections `. 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