Asu
Asu is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania and Kenya, by about 500 thousand people.
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Pare (Kipare), also known as Asu (Casu, Chasu, Athu, Chathu), is a Northeast Coast Bantu language spoken by the Pare people of Tanzania.
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Words in Asu
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | mche | |
| person | ntu* | |
| name | zina* | |
| eye | ziso* | |
| ear | sikio* | |
| nose | pua* | |
| tooth | jexo* | |
| tongue | lumi* | |
| hand | kono* | |
| blood | sakame* | |
| bone | vindi* | |
| skin | gozi* | |
| knee | kuNkuro* | |
| breast | ve* | |
| liver | tima* | |
| water | eku | |
| fire | oto* | |
| sun | zuva* | |
| star | tondo* | |
| stone | bwe* | |
| mountain | lima* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | xuNgo* | |
| night | kio* | |
| dog | guro* | |
| fish | gulama* | |
| louse | da* | |
| one | moSi* | |
| two | yeri* | |
| I | ni* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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