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--= natumanya.k.m = (talk) 00:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

RUNYANKORE-RUKIGA INFIX

Runyankore and Rukiga are big dialect spoken in South western Uganda. They are usually analysed as one Language "Runyankore-Rukiga". This is because of their mutual intelligibility and lexical similarities of over 90%. Runyankore-Rukiga is agglutinating, with outstanding derivational and inflectional morphology Like other Bantu languages namely; Chichewa, Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili and other, Runyankore-Rukiga's most derivational morphemes are suffixes. However, all of its verbs ending in -za, have a morpheme inserted in their roots whenever the derivation is applicative or prepositional(applied). This cuts across and forms a paradigm as illustrated below:

Basic Verb	Gloss	Applied Verb	Gloss	Infixed morpheme realised as an applicative marker -heza finish -hereza finish for -re- -batiza baptise -batiriza baptize for -ri- -ikiriza believe -ikiririza believe for/in -ri- -taza disagree -tariza disagree with/on -ri- -tooza search -tooreza search from -re- -tiiza borrow -tiiriza borrow for -ri- Considering the definition of an infix as, "An affix inserted in the stem or root of a verb" I am tempted to believe that Runyankore-Rukiga has an applicative morpheme realised as an infix. THE PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.