Английская Википедия:Aushi language
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Aushi, known by native speakers as Ikyaushi, is a Bantu language primarily spoken in the Lwapula Province of Zambia and the (Haut-)Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although many scholars argue that it is a dialect of the closely related Bemba, native speakers insist that it is a distinct language. Nonetheless, speakers of both linguistic varieties enjoy extensive mutual intelligibility, particularly in the Lwapula Province.[1]
Phonology
Aushi distinguishes consonants according to five manners and four places of articulation.[1] Although nasal consonants are individually phonemic, prenasalized consonants also arise in conjunction with the voiced and voiceless counterparts of the plosives, affricates, and fricatives.[1]
Aushi has five canonical vowels that are distinguished segmentally according to vowel height and backness and suprasegmentally according to length (short/long) and tone (low/high).[1] The front and central vowels are unrounded, while the back vowels are rounded. In environments where vowels arise before a nasal consonant, the vowels may adopt nasality, but this is not a distinctive feature, i.e. it is phonetic, not phonemic.[1]
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| High | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | ||
| Mid | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | ||
| Low | Шаблон:IPAlink | Шаблон:IPAlink | ||||
Grammar
| Class | Proto-Bantu | Augment | Prefix | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | *mo- | u- | mu- | umuntu | "person" |
| 1b | *∅- | ∅- | ∅- | mayo | "mother" |
| 2 | *βɔ-, *βa- | a- | ba- | abantu | "people" |
| 3 | *mo- | u- | mu- | umuti | "tree" |
| 4 | *me- | i- | mi- | imiti | "trees" |
| 5a | *le- | i- | shi- | ishina | "name" |
| 5b | *le- | i- | ∅- | isabi | "fish" |
| 6 | *ma- | a- | ma- | amana | "names" |
| 7 | *ke- | i- | ki- | ikitabu | "book" |
| 8 | *βi-, *li- | i- | fi- | ifitabu | "books" |
| 9 | *ne- | i- | N- | imfinsi | "darkness/night" |
| 10 | *li-ne | i- | N- | insiku | "days" |
| 11 | *lʊ- | u- | lu- | ulutambi | "proverb" |
| 12 | *ka- | a- | ka- | akalulu | "rabbit" |
| 13 | *to- | u- | tu- | utunwa | "mouths" |
| 14 | *βo- | u- | bu- | ubwaato | "canoe" |
| 15a | *ko- | u- | ku- | ukuya | "to go" |
| 15b | *ko- | u- | ku- | ukuboko | "arm" |
| 16 | *pa- | ∅- | pa- | pa ng'anda | "in (the/a) house" |
| 17 | *ko- | ∅- | ku- | ku mushi | "to (the/a) market" |
| 18 | *mo- | ∅- | mu- | mu sukulu | "in/inside (the/a) school" |
References
Further reading
- Bickmore, Lee. 2018. "Contrast Reemergence in the Aushi Subjunctive." Africana Linguistica, 24: 123-138.
- Doke, Clement Martyn. 1933. "A Short Aushi Vocabulary." Bantu Studies 7(1): 284-295.
- Ilunga, Nkimba Kafituka. 1994. Les Formes Verbales de l’Ikyaushi, M42b. Unpublished MA thesis. Institute Supérieur Pédagogique de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Kankomba and Twilingiyimana. 1986. "M421 Aushi." Tervuren, Belgium: Annales, Sciences Humaines, Royal Museum for Central Africa.
- Spier, Troy E. 2016. "A Survey of the IcAushi Language and Nominal Class System." Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS).
- ———. 2020. A Descriptive Grammar of Ikyaushi. Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, USA.
- ———. 2021. "Four Trickster Tales in Ikyaushi." World Literature Today, Autumn: 68-71.
- ———. 2022. "Nominal Phrase Structure in Ikyaushi (M.402)." Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 56: 31-47.
