Question
Instead of grammatical gender, this language has eighteen different noun classes indicated by prefixes like “m-”and “ki-.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this East African lingua franca that was developed along a namesake “coast” to communicate with Arab slave traders. This Bantu language's word for lion is “simba”.
ANSWER: Swahili [or Kiswahili; accept Swahili coast]
[10h] The Hadza language spoken in Tanzania, a language from this group, did not have words for number until it borrowed them from Swahili. Linguists have reclassified this non-Niger Congo group from a family proposed by Joseph Greenberg.
ANSWER: Khoisan [or Khoesaan]
[10m] Khoisan languages are characterized by not belonging to other African families and by the presence of these consonants produced by sucking air. The letters c, q, and x are used to represent these consonants in Xhosa and Zulu.
ANSWER: click consonants [accept lingual ingressive or velar ingressive consonants; prompt on ingressive consonants]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto cDNA | Toronto Sprout | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |