Benga
Benga is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Glottolog rates it moribund.
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Benga is a Bantu language spoken by the Benga people of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It has a dialectal variation called Bapuku. Benga speakers inhabit a small coastal portion of Río Muni, the Cape of San Juan, suburban enclaves of Rio Benito and Bata, the islands of Corisco, Small Elobey and Great Elobey.
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Words in Benga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | moto* | |
| name | dina* | |
| eye | diha* | |
| ear | dita* | |
| nose | vijo* | |
| tooth | ihoNa* | |
| tongue | emi* | |
| hand | ena* | |
| blood | makia* | |
| bone | evehe* | |
| skin | ukobo* | |
| knee | ibanga* | |
| breast | NoNa* | |
| liver | ehEka* | |
| water | miba* | |
| fire | veya* | |
| sun | joba* | |
| star | nyEtEti* | |
| stone | ilali* | |
| mountain | ukodi* | |
| tree | ele* | |
| leaf | ekai* | |
| night | bulu* | |
| dog | mbwa* | |
| fish | ejaka* | |
| louse | nina* | |
| one | umbaka* | |
| two | ibale* | |
| I | mbi* | |
| you | o* |
* 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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Glottolog · beng1282 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · bng