Cineni
Cineni is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Cineni is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria in the single village of Cineni. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified it as a dialect of Guduf-Gava.
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Words in Cineni
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | wuda* | |
| name | d3xa* | |
| eye | gyiya* | |
| ear | Limiya* | |
| nose | x3t3ra* | |
| tooth | Lirda* | |
| tongue | iraxa* | |
| blood | viZa* | |
| bone | LaLa* | |
| skin | ozuwa* | |
| knee | xwunja* | |
| breast | wuba* | |
| liver | irva* | |
| water | yuwa* | |
| fire | kara* | |
| sun | faCiya* | |
| star | kwaLaLa* | |
| stone | kura* | |
| mountain | xuba* | |
| tree | wofa* | |
| leaf | m3sa* | |
| night | videya* | |
| dog | x3da* | |
| fish | k3l3te* | |
| louse | CaCa* | |
| one | pala* | |
| two | buwa* | |
| drink | xuboka* | |
| see | naxakena* | |
| hear | Cinakena* |
* 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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