Adhola
Adhola is a Nilotic language spoken in Kenya and Uganda, by about 480 thousand people.
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Adhola, also known as Jopadhola and Ludama, is a dialect of Southern Luo spoken by the Adhola people (a.k.a. Jopadhola or Badama) of Uganda. Dhopadhola is generally mutually intelligible with Acholi, Kumam, Lango and Alur of Uganda and Dholuo of Kenya.
The prefix dho means "language of". It can be attached to a nationality or speech community to imply the language of such a people. jo means "people of". The infix pa means possessive 'of'.
Dhopadhola thus means the language spoken in Padhola.
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Words in Adhola
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | dhno* | |
| name | 5i5* | |
| eye | waN* | |
| ear | yith* | |
| nose | wum* | |
| tooth | lak* | |
| tongue | lEw* | |
| hand | ciN* | |
| blood | rEmo* | |
| bone | cogo* | |
| skin | del* | |
| knee | coN* | |
| breast | thuno* | |
| liver | cu5* | |
| water | pi* | |
| fire | mac* | |
| sun | ceN* | |
| stone | kidi* | |
| mountain | got* | |
| tree | yath* | |
| leaf | pot* | |
| night | wor* | |
| dog | gwok* | |
| fish | rEc* | |
| louse | o5ogo* | |
| one | acEl* | |
| two | ariyo* | |
| I | an* | |
| you | in* | |
| we | wan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · adho1243 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · adh