Word List
Some vocabulary :
- aboro – people
- ami – they (applying to animals)
- ani, a – we
- areme – today
- ari – high
- ba – father
- bagunda – heart
- bambu – house
- bangiri pia – east
- bangirise – eye
- báwe – ten
- be – arm, hand
- bi – see
- biama – four
- biata – three
- -bira – to be black
- bire, bere – forest
- bisua bati biata, muambi – eight
- bisua bati ue, saba – seven
- bisua bati biama, ribua – nine
- bisue bati sa, sita – six
- boro – person, man
- de – woman
- di – valley
- dia, da – wife
- dioyo – west
- diwi – moon, month
- ga Mbori bambu – church
- gangara – hill
- garã – year, dry season
- gbanga – horn
- gbuku – forest
- gbundu – forest
- gunde – fear
- i, yo – they (persons)
- ida – believe
- ime – water
- kama – a hundred
- keda – send
- kerekuru – star
- kibire – forest
- kisanga – island
- ko – he
- kparabe – hand
- kpendue – foot
- kperekese – everyone
- kpetebe – hand
- kure – blood
- mbia – mountain, rocky hill
- Mbori – God
- mi – I, me
- mo – you, singular
- na, a, ki – and
- ndue – foot
- ngba – mouth
- ngbarago – joy
- ngbongbo – valley
- ngera – see
- ngua – tree
- -ni – he, she (indefinite)
- ome – air
- oni – you, plural
- paga – bridge
- pai – word
- rago, ra'o, rame – day
- ri – head; she
- rimo – name
- sa – one
- sende – earth
- si – they, neuter
- si, ti – it (subject)
- tue – ear
- -u – he, she (in reported speech)
- u – it (animal subject)
- ue – two
- uroyo – east
- uru – sun, day
- -vura – to be white
- we – fire
- wiri – son
- zamba – red
- zande – person, man
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