Bankon
Bankon is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Bankon (Abo, Abaw, Bo, Bon) is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon. It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province.
Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.
From Wikipedia · Bankon language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Bankon
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | mùùtǎŋ | |
| name | o* | |
| eye | is* | |
| ear | won* | |
| nose | o* | |
| tooth | son* | |
| tongue | lem* | |
| hand | ka* | |
| blood | ke* | |
| bone | fes* | |
| skin | koxo* | |
| knee | bon* | |
| breast | to* | |
| liver | sex* | |
| water | màléw | |
| fire | ei* | |
| sun | fiana* | |
| star | son* | |
| stone | kog* | |
| mountain | Nkogo* | |
| tree | ke* | |
| night | Ngoxo* | |
| dog | mbio* | |
| fish | titi* | |
| louse | ie* | |
| one | kja* | |
| two | ba* | |
| I | me* | |
| you | oe* | |
| we | bes* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Grammar
- LobalaAtlantic-Congo92% alike
- TieneAtlantic-Congo92% alike
- TswaAtlantic-Congo90% alike
- BaloboAtlantic-Congo90% alike
- Congo SwahiliAtlantic-Congo88% alike
- Ncane-MungongAtlantic-Congo88% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · bank1256 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · abb