Grammar
Many of the main features of Bemba grammar are fairly typical of Bantu languages: it is agglutinative, depends mainly on prefixes, has a system of several noun classes, a large set of verbal aspects and tenses, very few actual adjectives, and, like English, uses subject-verb-object word order. Most of the classification here is taken from that given by Schoeffer, Sheane and Cornwallis.
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