Loan Words and Their Effect on the Classification of Swahili Nominals

abiria abstract acquired in Swahili adjectives allomorph Animate nominals animate nouns Arabic Ashton assimilation Bantu languages Bantu nominals Bleek Carl Meinhof class prefix co-occur concordial agreement derived dialect discussion distinguish number examples function gender grammarians Gregersen hiki huyu inanimate initial syllable ji-ma JI-MA-CLASS ki-vi KI-VI-CLASS Krapf Krumm lexical items linguistic loan words locative Loogman M-MI-CLASS mahali Marconnes marker meaning Meinhof morphemes morpho morphological agreements mpya N-CLASS N-CLASS agreement native speakers nominal indicators nominal prefixes nominal root nominal stems non-Bantu nouns non-Bantu origin non-Bantu words Noun Classes nouns of non-Bantu nouns which appear nouns with initial number distinction observed occur person plural plural form plural number Polomé pronominal indicator pronoun rafiki refer rules semantic shangazi singular and plural singular prefix Standard Swahili structure substance suffix Swahili language Swahili lexicon Swahili nominals syntactic Tippu Tip Ulaya verb vita wangu words of non-Bantu yangu zangu