BANTU AND BAVILI PREFIXES 9 



Monseigneur Carrie presented us with his excellent 

 " Grammaire de la langue Fiote, dialecte du Ka 

 Kongo " in 1888. 



In his comparative grammar of South African 

 languages, Bleek (1862) compared the concord pre- 

 fixes of twenty-five Bantu languages and gave his 

 " standard " as under : 



The following are the differences between this 

 standard list and that of the Bavili, so far as my 

 knowledge will take me : 



No. i. No change. 



No. 2. N and M as light nasals preceded by the 



letter e take the prefix Zi instead of Thin 



or tin. 



No. 3. No change. 

 No. 4. Ki the Bavili pronounce Xi or Tchi and it 



makes Bi in the plural instead of Pi. This 



difference is insignificant, especially when 



