Chokwe
Chokwe is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Congo - Kinshasa, Angola, Zambia, and Namibia.
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Chokwe (also known as Batshokwe, Ciokwe, Kioko, Kiokwe, Quioca, Quioco, Shioko, Tschiokloe or Tshokwe) is a Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia.
In Angola, it is the native language of more than 2 million people (as of 2024); another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010. It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
From Wikipedia · Chokwe language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Mwese yoze masemuka katela ukulungunga ulengunga ulemu nyi vumbi eswe ci mwikha. Eswe kalingile kupwa nyi usambe nyi mangana nyi kuhasa kulimika nyumwe nyi mukwo nyi kulita nyi mbunge ya ulemu wa utu.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Chokwe
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | pwo | |
| person | tu* | |
| name | jina* | |
| eye | so* | |
| ear | twitwi* | |
| nose | zulu* | |
| tooth | zo* | |
| tongue | limi* | |
| blood | nyinga* | |
| bone | fwaha* | |
| skin | kowa* | |
| knee | ngunwa* | |
| breast | ele* | |
| liver | ayi* | |
| water | meya | |
| fire | hia* | |
| sun | tangwa* | |
| star | tongono* | |
| stone | we* | |
| mountain | lundu* | |
| tree | todo* | |
| leaf | fwo* | |
| night | fuku* | |
| dog | wa* | |
| fish | Si* | |
| louse | na* | |
| one | mwe* | |
| two | ali* | |
| drink | nw* | |
| see | mon* |
* 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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