Buru-Angwe
Buru-Angwe is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Buru and Angwe constitute a potentially rather divergent Southern Bantoid language spoken in Sardauna LGA, Taraba State of Nigeria.
Buru is the language of a village near where Batu is spoken, east of Baissa.
Angwe had previously been assumed to be Batu, a Tivoid language, but turns out to be the same language as Buru. There are resemblances to Tivoid, though apart from sharing some lexical items with Northwest Tivoid, presumably due to contact, there is little evidence to classify it. It is treated as an isolate within Bantoid by Blench (2016).
From Wikipedia · Buru–Angwe language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Buru-Angwe
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nEn* | |
| name | ta* | |
| eye | Si* | |
| ear | te* | |
| nose | nyin* | |
| tooth | nyi* | |
| tongue | nEn* | |
| blood | fom* | |
| bone | ku* | |
| skin | ka* | |
| knee | neu* | |
| breast | b3n* | |
| water | mbig3m* | |
| fire | gu* | |
| sun | 83N* | |
| star | kekwEn* | |
| stone | tra* | |
| mountain | ako* | |
| tree | tre* | |
| leaf | fiye* | |
| dog | bwa* | |
| fish | 8u* | |
| louse | ama* | |
| one | dimfrun* | |
| two | fira* | |
| drink | ma* | |
| see | ne* | |
| hear | Ngwa* | |
| die | kwe* | |
| come | ba* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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