Kasena or Kassena ( Kasem or Kassem ) is the language of the Kassena ethnic group and is a Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana and in Burkina Faso .
17-508: Kasem may refer to: Language [ edit ] Kasem language , Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso and [REDACTED] Ghana People [ edit ] Casey Kasem (1932–2014), [REDACTED] American radio personality and voice actor Kazi Abul Kasem (1913–2003), Bengali [REDACTED] Bangladesh painter and cartoonist Kasim , Kasem appears as
34-449: A different lexical category . Prefixes, like all affixes, are usually bound morphemes . English has no inflectional prefixes, using only suffixes for that purpose. Adding a prefix to the beginning of an English word changes it to a different word. For example, when the prefix un- is added to the word happy , it creates the word unhappy . The word prefix is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach", in this case), and
51-577: A low tone. Tonal changes either change the lexical meaning of a word or its grammatical function. Lexical A A „I“ Á Á „You (PL)“ Grammatical Wu Wu Negation Wú Wú Futur There are five classes of nouns that can be identified in Kasena. These classes correspond to grammatical genders and are differentiated in terms of number, such that there are five classes for singular nouns and five classes for plural nouns. There are two classes of personal pronouns. One class
68-654: A part of the formation of nouns, prefixes are less common in Russian than suffixes, but alter the meaning of a word. In German, derivatives formed with prefixes may be classified in two categories: those used with substantives and adjectives, and those used with verbs. For derivative substantives and adjectives, only two productive prefixes are generally addable to any substantive or adjective as of 1970: un- , which expresses negation (as in ungesund , from gesund ), and ur- , which means "original, primitive" in substantives, and has an emphatic function in adjectives. ge- , on
85-424: A spelling of the name Kasim Mike Kasem , [REDACTED] Arab Places [ edit ] Kasem Bundit University in [REDACTED] Bangkok , Thailand Nakhon Kasem , Bangkok market Kasem, Trakan Phuet Phon - Ubon Ratchathani Province, [REDACTED] Thailand Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
102-441: Is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative , because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed. Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional , creating a new form of a word with the same basic meaning and same lexical category , or derivational , creating a new word with a new semantic meaning and sometimes also
119-509: Is covered at Hyphen > Prefixes and suffixes . Commonly used prefixes in Japanese include お〜 ( o- ) and ご〜 ( go- ) . They are used as part of the honorific system of speech , and are used as markers for politeness, showing respect for the person or thing they are affixed to, notably also being used euphemistically . In the Bantu languages of Africa , which are agglutinating ,
136-478: Is expressed by a personal pronoun to which either tɪtɪ or katɪ ('-self')is added. O 3SG cɔgɪ destroy o 3SG tɪtɪ. self O cɔgɪ o tɪtɪ. 3SG destroy 3SG self „He destroys himself.“ Relative pronouns are formed on the basis of the personal pronouns for non-human entities to which the suffix -lʊ is attached. The Kasena language has a basic SVO word order. Ada Ada diim yesterday toŋe. Prefix A prefix
153-506: Is referring to humans, whereas the other class is referring to non-human entities. The personal pronouns are also used as possessive pronouns, thus there is no special form for possessive pronouns in Kasena. Human personal pronouns Non-human personal pronouns Reciprocity is expressed by the pronoun daanɪ , which sometimes occurs as a prefix or suffix . Ba 3PL soe like daanɪ. each.other Ba soe daanɪ. 3PL like each.other „They like each other.“ Reflexivity
170-565: The Goulsse alphabet (from gʋlse , “writing” in Mooré ) was devised by Burkinabé app developer Wenitte Apiou, Babaguioue Micareme Akouabou and Kassem linguist Fernand Ki in summer of 2021 based on the geometrical patterns found in Kassena architecture. The alphabet is also planned to be applicable for the related Mooré language as well. Kasena has three tones , a high tone, a mid level tone and
187-566: The Navajo language are formed from a word stem and multiple affixes. For example, each verb requires one of four non-syllabic prefixes ( ∅ , ł , d , l ) to create a verb theme. In the Sunwar language of Eastern Nepal , the prefix ma- म is used to create negative verbs . It is the only verbal prefix in the language. ma .rimʃo NEG .nice al child ma .rimʃo al NEG.nice child Bad child! (scolding) As
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#1732780886080204-442: The noun class is conveyed through prefixes, which is declined and agrees with all of its arguments accordingly. ò-mú -límí AG - CL1 -farmer ò-mú -néné AG - CL1 -fat ò-mú -kâddé AG - CL1 -old ò-mú AG .one à-∅-gênda he- PRES -go ò-mú -límí ò-mú -néné ò-mú -kâddé ò-mú à-∅-gênda AG-CL1-farmer AG-CL1-fat AG-CL1-old AG.one he-PRES-go The one, old, fat farmer goes. Verbs in
221-455: The forming of the past participle of verbs; ver- has an emphatic function, or it is used to turn a substantive or an adjective into a verb. In some cases, the prefix particle ent- (negation) can be considered the opposite of particle be- , while er- can be considered the opposite of ver- . The prefix er- usually indicates the successful completion of an action, and sometimes the conclusion means death. With fewer verbs, it indicates
238-427: The other hand, expresses union or togetherness, but only in a closed group of words—it cannot simply be added to any noun or adjective. Verbal prefixes commonly in use are be- , ent- , er- , ge- , miss- , ver- , and zer- (see also Separable verb ). be- expresses strengthening or generalization. ent- expresses negation. ge- indicates the completion of an action, which is why its most common use has become
255-516: The prefix pre- (meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots . This is a fairly comprehensive, although not exhaustive, list of derivational prefixes in English. Depending on precisely how one defines a derivational prefix, some of the neoclassical combining forms may or may not qualify for inclusion in such a list. This list takes the broad view that acro- and auto- count as English derivational prefixes because they function
272-399: The same way like that of prefixes such as over- and self- do. As for numeral prefixes , only the most common members of that class are included here. There is a large separate table covering them all at Numeral prefix > Table of number prefixes in English . binomial , "two terms" dipole , "two poles" The choice between hyphenation or solid styling for prefixes in English
289-484: The title Kasem . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kasem&oldid=1163385342 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kasem language An independent 30-letter alphabet called
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