Locative enclitics in Kinyarwanda: A comparative study to Luganda

Languages share the same level of complexity, with simpler areas of grammar being compensated by more complexity elsewhere. Some Bantu languages have some common features in grammar, and these features can make someone think that one language is the same as another. One of the grammatical features that Bantu languages share is Locative enclitics. Locative enclitics are words that cannot stand alone. They need other parts of the world to exist. Kinyarwanda and Luganda share some common features, as they are both Bantu languages. In Kinyarwanda, there are many linguistic features that are also found in Luganda. Some features that are shared include word classes, word morphology, and sentence structure. This paper looks at common linguistic features of Kinyarwanda and Luganda on locative enclitics. This research is descriptive with a qualitative approach. The data used in this study comes from the Kinyarwanda and Luganda grammar books produced by several researchers and institutions in charge of promoting those languages.