Thread:User talk:CodeCat/bantu/reply (10)

Zoliswa's answer:

..No I know of no other way of referring to a noun with no initial vowel for whatever reason, it is the vocative...


 * She is a native speaker/academic teaching the language at Boston (US) and at Fort Hare (EC, SA). Maybe we should just go by vocative until the Nguni grammarians come up with something better.


 * Something else: I have been trying to amend xh-noun (a copy of zu-noun) to make it accept words like amanzi as uncountable rather than as 'plurale tantum'. Yes, class 6 can be a real plural of a class 5 word, but it can also be more like a dual as with a pair of eyes amehlo, or something quantifiable rather than countable like amanzi or amandla. Unfortunately I did not understand the structure of the template well enough to pull it off. I had introduced a parameter value 2=u, but this somehow made the temple think I was speaking Old Church Slavonic.. Could you do something about that CodeCat?

Jcwf (talk) 14:31, 13 September 2012 (UTC)