A comparative study of the influence of the nasal prefix `N' ( from UR- BANTU "NI-") on succeeding consonants at the beginning of some lexical items in Zulu, Xhosa and Southern Sotho
In any language, words are uttered systematically according to certain rules. Each language has therefore its own system. Language may be defined as "a system of utterances governed by a set of.rules". In a language there are partial systems such as Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, etc. Wnen these partial systems are put together they form a unique system of a particular language. Phonetics is the study of a single speech sound. A word is made up of a number of phonetic units.
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