Dahalo
Dahalo is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Kenya, by about 400 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual among the world's languages in using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language: clicks, implosives, ejectives, and pulmonic consonants.
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Words in Dahalo
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | guho* | |
| name | sare* | |
| eye | ila* | |
| ear | agaZo* | |
| nose | sina* | |
| tooth | kalati* | |
| tongue | Xena* | |
| hand | dara* | |
| blood | diga* | |
| bone | miCo* | |
| skin | gino* | |
| knee | gili* | |
| breast | !one* | |
| liver | mako* | |
| water | maʔa | |
| fire | ega* | |
| sun | ado* | |
| star | !ingilXe* | |
| stone | mawele* | |
| mountain | mulima* | |
| tree | koro* | |
| leaf | Sabune* | |
| night | hima* | |
| dog | naXete* | |
| fish | mbalabe* | |
| louse | itore* | |
| one | watukwe* | |
| two | li* | |
| I | a5i* | |
| you | ata* |
* 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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