The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to Sabaki and to other Bantu languages, and some data on contemporary Sabaki languages. Data sets, appendices, maps, and figures present essential information on phonology, lexical makeup, and tense/aspect morphology. The final chapter is a synthesis describing the linguistic and historical relationship of the Sabaki dialects to each other and to hypothetical proto-stages.
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This review is from: Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History (University of California Publications in Linguistics) (Paperback)
This book seems informative for people who like to read a bunch of blabbering before getting to the point of the book that is learning Kiswahili. It is probably not good for a person who just wants to learn the words, sentences, and meanings. It is better for someone who wants to learn the background and history of the authors thoughts and experience in the Kiswahili speaking areas of the world along with words, sentences, and meanings.
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