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