Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show the linguistically interesting tonal phenomena in Bantu languages which have been found by the author so far. In §1 difficulties of the phonemic analysis of tone often encountered in the research of Bantu languages are discussed. In §2 several tonal phenomena concerning nouns (especially, tone variations of nouns) are presented, and in §3 some phenomena concerning the tonal figures of verbs of a few languages are given. The languages dealt with in this paper include: Tonga, Nguni, Sambaa, Sotho-Tswana, Nande, Kikuyu, Kwanyama, Sukuma, Nkoya, Mongo, Herero, and Chaga (Machame).
