Basaa
Basaa is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon, by about 230 thousand people.
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Basaa (also rendered Bassa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions.
Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects.
From Wikipedia · Basaa language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Basaa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ur* | |
| name | oy* | |
| eye | is* | |
| ear | o* | |
| nose | ol* | |
| tooth | soN* | |
| tongue | lemb* | |
| blood | Cel* | |
| bone | hes* | |
| skin | ko* | |
| knee | boN* | |
| breast | bE* | |
| liver | ba* | |
| water | mèni | |
| fire | e* | |
| sun | op* | |
| star | ror* | |
| stone | ngok* | |
| mountain | koa* | |
| tree | E* | |
| leaf | ay* | |
| night | u* | |
| dog | ngwo* | |
| fish | obi* | |
| louse | yel* | |
| one | pok* | |
| two | ba* | |
| drink | 5o* | |
| see | tEhE* | |
| hear | nok* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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