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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the similarities and differences between Swahili and Japanese related to linguistic characteristics. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that common language patterns and the function of noun classification in language underscore similarities between vastly different languages, like Swahili and other African languages, and Japanese, representative of Asian languages.
Japanese is one of the ancient languages of Asia and reflects a long standing linguistic connection with other Asian languages, including Chinese and Thai. Swahili is a member
of the Bantu group of African languages, spoken by some 30 million people in Tanzania, Kenya, the Congo, Burundi and Uganda, and spoken as an additional language in E. Africa
(Swahili, 2004). "Although grammatically a Bantu tongue, Swahili has been greatly influenced by Arabic, from which it has borrowed many words. It is the vehicle of a noteworthy literature
that goes back to the beginning of the 18th cent. and is written in a form of the Arabic alphabet. In the second half of the 19th cent., missionaries introduced
the Roman alphabet for recording Swahili. Since then writing has flourished, and some native authors of distinction have appeared" (Swahili, 2004). One of the functional
elements related to language structure and the commonality of languages can be understood by viewing the works of Zipf. Harvard linguist George Kingsley Zipf argued what has become known
as Zipfs law, that human languages follow a pattern that is characterized by the frequency of different words (Ravilious, 2003). Zipf recognized that in every language there are many
small, ambiguous words (in English, words like the, be and to), that are scattered throughout a sentence, while there are much larger, very specific words (in English, words like kitchen,
bathtub and bookcase) that repeat themselves much less frequently. Zipfs law states that you can draw a graph of the use of the different types of words and there
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