Bantu language spoken in East Africa
Makonde, or Kimakonde , is the language spoken by the Makonde , an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique .[3] Makonde is a central Bantu language closely related to Yao . The Matambwe (Matembwe) and Mabiha (Maviha) dialects are divergent, and may not be Makonde.[4] [full citation needed ]
A mosquito-borne viral fever first identified on the Makonde Plateau is named Chikungunya , which is derived from the Makonde root verb kungunyala (meaning "that which bends up", "to become contorted," or "to walk bent over").[5] The derivation of the term is generally falsely attributed to Swahili .[6]
Phonology
The following are the consonants and vowels of the Makonde language:[7]
Vowels
There also tends to be a rising final vowel sound /vv́/ within vowel combinations.
Consonants
References
^ Makonde at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Machinga at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Ndonde Hamba at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Matambwe at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
^ Nurse 2003
^ Morens DM and Fauci AS (2014). "Chikungunya at the Door — Déjà Vu All Over Again?" . New England Journal of Medicine . 371 (10): 885–887. doi :10.1056/NEJMp1408509 . PMID 25029435 .
^ Singh, SS; Manimunda, SP; Sugunan, AP; Sahina, Vijayachari P (2008). "Four cases of acute flaccid paralysis associated with chikungunya virus infection" . Epidemiol Infect . 136 (9): 1277–80. doi :10.1017/S0950268807009739 . PMC 2870928 . PMID 18634716 .
^ Kraal, Pieter J. (2005). A Grammar of Makonde (Chinnima, Tanzania) . pp. 16–32.
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