Schonstein Pinnock, Patricia.

Xhosa. A Cultural Grammar for Beginners.

Cape Town, African Sun Press, 1994. 21 x 28,5 cm. 208 pages. Original Softcover. Small damage to lower edge of pages. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

The Xhosa language is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language; that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation. One of the most distinctive features of the language is the prominence of click consonants; the word “Xhosa” begins with a click. Xhosa is written using a Latin alphabet. Three letters are used to indicate the basic clicks: c for dental clicks, x for lateral clicks, and q for post-alveolar clicks (for a more detailed explanation, see the table of consonant phonemes, below). Tones are not indicated in the written form. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: African Cultures · African History · African Identities · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Linguistics · Xhosa
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781874915034
• Inventory Number: 3121BB

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