By Fridah Kanana Erastus
ISBN-10: 3631603762
ISBN-13: 9783631603765
This examine is an research into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu kinds spoken in Kenya. those kinds (Imenti, Igoji, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi and Chuka) belong to the so-called Meru staff. The examine develops a brand new class of those six dialects. for this reason, a dialectological method is used, along with the research of wordlists and lists of brief words elicited within the box. From the information, isoglosses and similarities relating morpho-phonological approaches are drawn. the consequences exhibit during which respects the dialects vary from one another. hence, the current paintings contributes to comparative Bantu linguistics.
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The respondents were supplied with a list of words written in English and Kiswahili and asked to give the equivalents in their mother-tongue. Their responses were tape-recorded. After the tape-recording ses�sion, the respondents gave the equivalents of the words again and the re� searcher wrote them down in normal orthography. The wordlist consisted of basic terms such as names of things and natural phenomena, parts of the body, names of birds, insects, animals, some verbs, ad�verbs, adjectives, numerals, etc.
For example, Tharaka and Meru are mentioned but Chuka is left out. Guthrie confesses that he was faced with the problem of deciding on what to call languages or dialects. This is because the decision could not be reached on purely scientific grounds. Moreover, there are added difficulties arising from both political considerations and demographic data. Furthermore, he observes that, from a purely linguistic point of view, there is no real reason for treating Zulu as distinct from Xhosa. They could easily be regarded as a cluster of dia�lects, yet to do so would mean to ignore the fact that the speakers of the two forms of speech have come to regard themselves as speaking two different lan�guages.
1 Johnston’s grouping is very complicated because he considers Kikuyu to comprise Kikuyu proper, which consists of Nyeri, Ndia, Embu (Chuka, Mwimbi, Mbeere, Tharaka and Igoji) and Meru 11a. He observes that Meru is said to be markedly distinct. Therefore, Johnston treats Kikuyu as number 11 and Meru as 11a, which means Meru is a sub-section of Kikuyu. However, Chuka, Mwimbi, Tharaka and Igoji are classified under Embu. He does not explain which dialect or group is called Meru but only uses an umbrella term Meru, or north-east Kikuyu.
Lexico-Phonological Comparative Analysis of Selected Dialects of the Meru-Tharaka Group by Fridah Kanana Erastus
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