Linguistic Features of Shona

Taylor M. Sharp; Akira Enderle; Ben Geffon; Emma A. Halverson; Cation Jones; Matthew Lyman; Kayla Scord; Hailey Scott; Caroline Zasadny; Michal Temkin Martínez; Tim Thornes

Linguistic Features of Shona

Taylor M. Sharp, Akira Enderle, Ben Geffon, Emma A. Halverson, Cation Jones, Matthew Lyman, Kayla Scord, Hailey Scott, Caroline Zasadny, Michal Temkin Martínez, Tim Thornes

English Department

Boise State University

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This poster provides a preliminary description of the linguistic features of Shona, a major language spoken in Zimbabwe and by at least one speaker in the Boise area. Shona, spoken by over 10 million people, is characterized as an Atlantic-Congo, Narrow Bantu, Central language (S.10) within the Niger-Congo language family. As part of the capstone course in linguistics this semester, our group has met every week with a native speaker of the Karanga dialect of Shona and worked together to document the phonological, morphological, and syntactic features of the language, as well as several semantic domains of interest. The archived recordings and analyses resulting from this project will provide the scientific community with new data to promote theoretical linguistic research on Shona. Our project will benefit the Shona-speaking community as well as the Boise community by increasing linguistic awareness about the variety of languages spoken in our community and by supporting documentation efforts.

Original language	American English
State	Published - 12 Apr 2020

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