THE MORPHOLOGY OF A BANTU

By WILSON KAIGA GIDION GUDAHI

The study is based in English because that language is part and parcel of  British patrimony and also because it provides us with the essentials groundwork upon which to build our hopes in authorships and to our part, in these cultural studies, we strongly believe that the current  English language structure is something standard and efficacious.

• Language: English
• Publisher: EDUCATION IN STORE
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201350529

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Table of Contents

THE MORPHOLOGY OF A BANTU DIALECT

APPENDICES | THE VOCAL TRACT DIAGRAM

THE MORPHOLOGY OF A BANTU DIALECT

RESEARCH BASED APPLIED LINGUISTICS

LOGOOLI LANGUAGE

A BREAK THROUGH BY

WILSON KAIGA G. GUDAHI

EDUCATION IN STORE

Wilson Kaiga Gudahi was born on second October, 1934, in Vihiga County of Western Province - Kenya,

Between the years A.D 1940 and 1956, Gudahi attended Kegoye Primary, Ingotse junior secondary and Maseno secondary school.

Then he worked  for Kenya  government  as a civil  servant  and later for  Kenya shell  and  BP company  as a  salesman. Currently, he devotes himself to private study.

Education In Store is a body registered by the registrar of societies in Kenya. The  author is the  sole  proprietor of the  venture and this  language  study  text is his third  in  a series of other publicans  to be made yet.

As you all can see , the author is self educated ( with a bent  for research in  African languages).Although that has  been so , the presence here  of this  ambitious  old man  is  a chance  in itself  for those of  you with  providence  because from  his ideas ( contained in these  compendious  texts ), school teachers  at the secondary level  will benefit  when developing  techniques  to be used  in the  teaching  of African  languages . Forward, at the university level, these ideas will certainly enrich higher education (language research).

" The Morphology  of a Bantu  dialect  is, to  put to brief,  profoundly  thoughtful.It is therefore a study with a difference since it teams with strange ideas.

THE MORPHOLOGYOF A BANTU DIALECT

LOGOOLI LANGUAGE

RESEARCH BASED APPLIED LINGUISTICS 

BY WILSON KAIGA G.  GUDAHI

EDUCATION IN STORE

THE MORPHOLOGY OF A BANTU DIALECT

Published by: Education In Store

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First published in 2001 A.D 

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THE MORPHOLOGY OF BANTU DIALECT

DEDICATED TO MY LATE SONS:

RUBEN KIDAVASI

DAVID ALWENA

This language is native and this language is vernacular.

It does a good thing hewho speaks,reads andwrites properly his native language.

Philologists and  morphologists are  symbolists .As such  their  work  is to  express perfectly  intensions  on the  part  of the  artists  and create  in the  minds  of the readers  the exact equivalents.

Artists arethinkers andreaders learners

CONTENTS

ABRIVATION (No numbers )

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE  -Historical Background.

CHAPTER TWO  - Tables of Syllables.

CHAPTER THREE  - word Formation and analysis

a)  Agglutination of syllables

b)  Words  and  morphemes

c)  (i)Inflection  by conjugation

(ii)Inflection bydissonance (verbs of doing, being and having)

d)  Function  words

e)  Joining morphemes to form meaning for words

f)  Table  of derivational prefixes of ‘content’ words

g)  Peculiar word forms

h)  Tone words

i)  Nominative and objective case of pronounand adjective.

j)  Subtle differences between some vowels in the dialect.

k)  Some meaningful  words

l)  This dialect suffers the use of the meanings of the following terms.

APPENDICES

The  vocal trod diagram

The graphic nation grid

Logooli  vowel phonemes  on I.P.A chart

Logooli  consonantal  phonemes  on  I.P.A  chart

Acknowledgements

Reference

Glossary

PREFACE

The second part of our  struggle  to reach  our goal "The phonology ,The morphology and The syntax