Definition & Meaning | English word PROTO-BANTU
PROTO-BANTU
Definitions of PROTO-BANTU
- The hypothetical protolanguage of the Bantu languages.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PROTO-BANTU in a Sentence
- An obvious sign of proximity is the prefix used for language and dialect names, Proto-Bantu *ki- (class 7, as in the name of the Swahili language, Kiswahili), which in Herero has evolved to Otji- and in Ovambo further to Oshi-.
- Although some assert that no words for iron or ironworking can be traced to reconstructed proto-Bantu, place-names in West Africa suggest otherwise, for example (Okuta) Ilorin, literally "site of iron-work".
- Vansina argues that the original meaning of the (Proto-Bantu) word *twa was "hunter-gatherer, bushpeople", alongside yaka used for the western (Mbuti) pygmies (Bayaka).
- Proto-Niger–Congo is traditionally assumed to have had a disyllabic root structure similar to that of Proto-Bantu, namely (C)V-CVCV while Konstantin Pozdniakov (2016) suggests that the main prototypical structure of Proto-Niger–Congo roots is *CVC, along with disyllabic, trisyllabic, and other variations.
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