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Language Comparison: Sami North vs Tumbuka
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Aspect | Sami North | Tumbuka |
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Family | Uralic, Sami | Niger-Congo |
Speakers | Approximately 25,000 | Approximately 2 million |
Features | The most widely spoken Sami language, known for vowel harmony, consonant gradation, and a rich system of inflection | A Bantu language spoken in parts of Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania, known for its noun class system and tonal nature, which affects meaning |
Countries | Norway, Sweden, Finland | Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania |
Writing System | Latin script with additional characters | Latin script |
Tonal | No | Yes, tone is used to distinguish word meaning |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, features 7 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, locative, illative, comitative, and essive | No, uses noun classes and affixes for grammatical relations |
Derived From | Proto-Sami | Proto-Bantu, with historical links to other Bantu languages in the region |
Loanwords | From Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish), Finnish, and Russian | From English, Swahili, and neighboring Bantu languages |
Dialects | Includes Western Northern Sami, Eastern Northern Sami, and Sea Sami, with phonological and lexical differences | Includes dialects such as Henga, Kamanga, and other minor regional variations |
Alphabets | A, Á, B, C, Č, D, Đ, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ŋ, O, P, R, S, Š, T, Ŧ, U, V, Z, Ž | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z |
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