Awjilah
Awjilah is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Libya, by about 3,000 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Awjila (also Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila, Awgila, Awdjila; endonym: Jlan n Awilen) is a severely endangered (considered "moribund" by Ethnologue) Eastern Berber language spoken in Cyrenaica, Libya, in the Awjila oasis. Due to the political situation in Libya, immediate data on the language has been inaccessible. However, Facebook postings by speakers and younger semi-speakers have provided some recent supplementary data.
From Wikipedia · Awjila language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Awjilah
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ar3gaz* | |
| eye | tit* | |
| ear | is3m* | |
| nose | tk3nzirt* | |
| tooth | asin* | |
| tongue | il3s* | |
| hand | afus* | |
| blood | dimmen* | |
| bone | axast* | |
| skin | glim* | |
| knee | afud* | |
| liver | tisi* | |
| water | imin | |
| fire | awif* | |
| sun | tafut* | |
| stone | az3rg* | |
| leaf | t3l3biSt* | |
| night | ab3t* | |
| dog | gzin* | |
| louse | tw3likt* | |
| one | iwinan* | |
| I | n3k* | |
| you | ku* | |
| we | n3k3ni* | |
| drink | Su* | |
| see | ag3l* | |
| hear | 3s3l* | |
| die | mut* | |
| come | uS* | |
| path | t3barut* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Grammar
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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 · awji1241 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · auj