ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a grammar of Kami (G36), an under-described and endangered language spoken in Tanzania. Kami is a fairly typical Bantu language, although some areas stand out, such as the heavily reduced verbal morphology with merely two tense markers (Past and Non-Past), one modal and few aspectual markers. The lack of tones is unusual for Bantu, although not particularly so in this area. Another interesting feature is the striking variety of allophones representing the same phoneme. Finally, Kami lacks the widespread adjectives ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ the functions of which are instead filled by ordinary verbs.
