桑达韦语

桑达韦语是坦桑尼亚多多马地区桑达韦人使用的一种声调语言。它在年长和年青人之中仍然具有活力，有些地区的桑达韦人甚至只说桑达韦语。Albert Drexel在1920年代把它划归科依桑语系，但依据仅仅是该语言中存在搭嘴音。近来的研究表明它与科爾語系的联系可能更紧密。

桑达韦语有西北和东南两大方言。两者之间的区别在于语速、声调、禁忌词，以及词汇、语法上的细微差别。一些阿拉瓜人放弃了母语转而使用桑达韦语。
语法
代词
自由代词

 单数 复数 第一人称 tsi sũũ 第二人称 hapu sĩĩ 第三人称男 he-we he-so 第三人称女 he-su
代词后缀
 单数 复数 第一人称 -és -wà 第二人称 -i -è 第三人称男 -à -ʔà 第三人称女 -sà
名词
名词由词干和后缀组成，后缀是为了标明阳性、阴性、中性以及单复数。
语序
桑达韦语的基本语序是主宾谓结构，但实际语序却十分灵活。

參見

资料

Dobashi, Yoshihito (2001) 'Agreement and Word Order in Sandawe' In Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics, 2001, 18, pp 57–74.
Eaton, Helen C. (2002) 'A Grammar of Focus in Sandawe' (Unpublished Ph.D thesis, University of Reading).
Elderkin, Edward D. (1989) 'The Significance and Origin of the Use of Pitch in Sandawe' (Unpublished D.Phil thesis, University of York).
Güldemann, Tom and Edward D. Elderkin (forthcoming) 'On external genealogical relationships of the Khoe family.' In Brenzinger, Matthias and Christa König (eds.), Khoisan languages and linguistics: the Riezlern symposium 2003. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 17. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. 
Hunziker, Daniel, Elisabeth Hunziker, & Helen Eaton (2008) A Description of the Phonology of the Sandawe Language. SIL Electronic Working Papers 
Kagaya, Ryohei (1993) 'A Classified Vocabulary of The Sandawe Language', Asian & African Lexicon vol 26. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
Sands, Bonny E. (1998) 'Eastern and Southern African Khoisan: evaluating claims of distant linguistic relationships.' Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 14. Köln: Köppe.
Voogt, A.J. de (1992) Some phonetic aspects of Hatsa and Sandawe clicks (Unpublished MA thesis in African Linguistics, Leiden University).
Wright, Richard, Ian Maddieson, Peter Ladefoged, Bonny Sands (1995). 'A phonetic study of Sandawe clicks', UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, No. 91: Fieldwork Studies in Targeted Languages III.

外部連結
Sandawe grammar at Cornell 
 Sandawe wordlists and accompanying soundfiles at UCLA 
Ethnologue Report for Sandawe 
SIL International 
Helen Eaton  More information on SIL International's work on Sandawe, with papers for downloading.
 Sandawe basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database 

Category:科伊桑语系
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