Aja (South Sudan)
Aja (South Sudan) is a Kresh-Aja language spoken in Sudan and South Sudan. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Aja is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the southern South Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal and along the South Sudanese border in the Central African Republic. Although the Aja are ethnically Kresh, their language is unintelligible to other Kresh languages. It is largely Banda in vocabulary, though it remains Kresh in structure. Most members of the tribe are bilingual in Kresh. Alternate spellings are Adja and Ajja.
From Wikipedia · Aja language (Nilo-Saharan) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Aja (South Sudan)
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | i7i* | |
| name | kiri* | |
| eye | i5i* | |
| ear | mimbi* | |
| nose | mumu* | |
| tooth | uku* | |
| tongue | ndindyi* | |
| hand | ru7bu* | |
| blood | usa* | |
| bone | cungu* | |
| skin | ngraku* | |
| knee | kuku* | |
| breast | vovo* | |
| water | 7ba7ba* | |
| fire | uCwa* | |
| sun | kudyo* | |
| star | ngEdE* | |
| stone | gisi* | |
| mountain | mbia* | |
| tree | CiCi* | |
| night | guri* | |
| dog | Cino* | |
| fish | kono* | |
| one | kpa* | |
| two | bira* | |
| I | ma* | |
| you | mu* | |
| we | ama* | |
| drink | amu* | |
| see | aku* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Kresh-WoroKresh-Aja19% alike
- BirriCentral Sudanic14% alike
- BongoCentral Sudanic14% alike
- Baka (Cameroon)Atlantic-Congo12% alike
- LugbaraCentral Sudanic12% alike
- GulayCentral Sudanic12% alike
Grammar
- MansimHatam-Mansim89% alike
- Kresh-WoroKresh-Aja87% alike
- Baka (South Sudan)Central Sudanic87% alike
- GaaAtlantic-Congo86% alike
- Beli (South Sudan)Central Sudanic86% alike
- Kara (Central African Republic)Central Sudanic85% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · ajas1235 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · aja