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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... 220. In fact, in Se-tshuana a consonant following immediately a nasal sound, may be said to become, almost throughout, more explosive, and on account of the greater stress laid upon the explosive pronunciation, the nasalisation dwindles almost entirely away. 221. The Tekeza has, on the contrary, nearly throughout, retained the nasal, and before a tenuis the nasal has even prevailed entirely, and has made the tenuis disappear after it, so that Kafir tit becomes n iu Tekeza, Kafir mp becomes m in Tekeza; and the guttural nasal entirely disappearing, Kafir nk is in Tekeza dissolved into the " spiritus lenis." 222. In other cases, before a soft explosive (media), or before an aspirated lingual, the nasalisation remains, in general, in the same cases as in Kafir, with slight changes of course in the pronunciation, such as the relation in which both languages stand to each other may require. For example, Kafir mv is in Tekeza changed into mf, 223. Whether the Se-tshuana n (ng of Sesuto, n of Sexlapi books) is exactly like the Kafir and Tekeza ng is uncertain. It certainly is, to such a degree, peculiar in its use, as it occurs most usually at the end of a syllable, and particularly of a word, and is here generally descended by contraction from the Kafir syllables -Tii and -nga. e. NASALISATION IN TUB MIDDLE BRANCH LANGUAGES. 224. Among the Middle Branch languages, few have preserved the initial nasals in such integrity as we find them in Kafir; but none have gone quite so far in discarding them as the Se-tshuana. 225. The Middle Branch languages agree with the Tekeza in retaining, generally, the nasal media, whilst the nasal tenuis is rarely met with, except in the Northwestern genus (Kongo, Mpongwe). In other Middle Branch languages, the...