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patterns. Intonation patterns (and informal perceptions of 'stress') in Mpumalanga Swazi are often considered discordant to the Swazi ear. This South African variety of Swazi is considered to exhibit influence from other South African languages spoken close to Swazi.
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A feature of the standard prestige variety of Swazi (spoken in the north and centre of Eswatini) is the royal style of slow, heavily stressed enunciation, which is anecdotally claimed to have a 'mellifluous' feel to its hearers.
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Swazi exhibits three surface tones: high, mid and low. Tone is unwritten in the standard orthography. Traditionally, only the high and mid tones are taken to exist phonemically, with the low tone conditioned by a preceding
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Unlike the variant in the south of Eswatini, the Mpumalanga variety appears to be less influenced by Zulu, and is thus considered closer to standard Swazi. However, this Mpumalanga variety is distinguishable by distinct
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Bonkhe bantfu batalwa bakhululekile balingana ngalokufananako ngesitfunti nangemalungelo. Baphiwe ingcondvo nekucondza kanye nanembeza ngakoke bafanele batiphatse futsi baphatse nalabanye ngemoya webuzalwane.
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High spread: all syllables between two high tones become high, as long as no depressor intervenes. This happens not only word-internally, but also across a word boundary between a verb and its object.
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Siswati has at least two varieties: the standard, prestige variety spoken mainly in the north, centre and southwest of the country, and a less prestigious variety spoken elsewhere.
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
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areas. Siswati is an official language of Eswatini (along with English), and is also one of the twelve official languages of South Africa.
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Siswati spoken in Eswatini can be divided into four dialects corresponding to the four administrative regions of the country:
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The official term is "siSwati" among native speakers; in English, Zulu, Ndebele or Xhosa it may be referred to as
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Geographical distribution of Swazi in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Swazi at home.
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The following table gives an overview of Swazi noun classes, arranged according to singular-plural pairs.
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When a stem with non-high tone receives a prefix with underlying high tone, this high tone moves to the
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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Geographical distribution of Swazi in South Africa: density of Swazi home-language speakers.
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The following example of text is Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
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can both occur as ejective sounds, and , but their common forms are and . The sound
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Swazi does not distinguish between places of articulation in its clicks. They are
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differs when at the beginning of stems as , and commonly as within words.
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Commission for Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Community Rights
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Verbs use the following affixes for the subject and the object:
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appears to behave as a depressor for some rules but not others.
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Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
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The depressor consonants are all voiced obstruents other than
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Swazi spell checker for OpenOffice.org and Mozilla (basic)
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respectively before stems beginning with a vowel, e.g.
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Taljaard, P. C.; Khumalo, J. N.; Bosch, S. E. (1991).
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Index

SiSwati
Swati language (disambiguation)
[sísʷaːtʼi]
Eswatini
South Africa
Lesotho
Mozambique
L1
L2
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Southern Bantu
Nguni
Tekela
Writing system
Latin
Swazi Braille
Ditema tsa Dinoko
Signed forms
Signed Swazi
South Africa
Eswatini
ISO 639-1
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