Talk:Somali grammar

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The article, however near to right it may be, in not encyclopedic.
Some such as the examples of focus (strangely involving John) has been moved from WP "Somali language". The definite article ending "-i" is mentioned with no explanation of its use. Verb conjugating is listed repetitively although endings for different persons have a stability. The various conjugations of verbs are hardly mentioned except for a reference to "a very small number" which retain an "archaic" conjugation. Is there evidence that it is archaic? Is the very small number five? A few linguists and thousands of Somalis know and millions of the latter with no formal grammar training could count if asked. Tone, very important grammatically, maybe as Somali was purely a spoken language until a generation ago, is mentioned but not explained, though there are unexplained accents just on two "af"s.--SilasW (talk) 23:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I have added a short bibliography (section 2). I wrote a M.A. thesis on a topic in Somali syntax about 15 years ago, and these were the principal titles I found at that time, plus a few more recent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.128.29 (talk) 00:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)