VOWEL CHANGES
There are 5 basic vowels in isiXhosa...
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There are 3 extended vowels...
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And there are 2 semivowels.
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There are 3 changes we can make to these vowels: JOIN / TRANSFORM / DELETE
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SOUND CHANGES
Any letter of the alphabet that is pronounced with your lips touching is called a bilabial sound.
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We change the sound of these letters when we add something to the end of a verb that has these letters in it [when these letters are in the second syllable of the verb].
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