Masaaba

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Masaba (Lumasaaba), sometimes known as Gisu (Lugisu) after one of its dialects, is a Bantu language spoken by some two milion people in East Africa. Gisu dialect in eastern Uganda is mutually intelligible with Bukusu, spoken by ethnic Luhya in western Kenya. Masaba is the local name of Mount Elgon and the name of the son of the ancestor of the Gisu tribe. Like other Bantu languages, Lumasaba has a large set of prefixes used as noun classifiers. This is similar to how gender is used in many Germanic and Romance languages, except that instead of the usual two or three, there are around eighteen different noun classes. The language is not tonal but has a quite complex verb morphology.
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Names (more)

[en] Masaaba
[pl] Język masaba
[pt] Língua masaba
[sw] Kimasaaba

Language type : Living

Language resources for Masaaba

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Wiktionary - Category:Masaba language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:masaba [fr]

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