| Abstract: | 'Luyana' is a collective term used to refer to a group of closely related Bantu languages and dialect clusters spoken in the Western Province of Zambia. Sum.: Luyana, a group of Bantu languages and dialect clusters spoken in the Western Province of Zambia, has a two-level tonal system of high and low with the variations of falling, rising and down-stepping restricted to a few of these dialects. Tonal data, like lexical, generally distinguishes the western cluster, where the underlying (Common Bantu) high tone on the initial syllable has been moved left onto the prefix, from the eastern where the tone is retained. Further surface-tone development in Luyana (including left-passing plus raising, right-passing, tone merger, block raising) do not only distinguish the western from the eastern cluster but also tend to differentiate certain dialects within the clusters. - App., bibliogr., note, sum. (also in French, Portuguese, Spanish). |
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