ABSTRACT

We saw, at the outset, that inflexion by prefixes was a great and striking characteristic of the Bantu speech-family. We have seen, also, that suffixes play by no means a negligible part, as they distinguish both the Derived Forms and the Moods of Verbs. Further some languages have the suffixed Locative; and we just remarked in passing that a good many adjectives are formed by suffixes. What more there is to say about these, and the other cases not already noticed, can best find a place here.