Ejagham
Ejagham is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon, by about 116.7 thousand people.
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The Jagham language, Ejagham, also known as Ekoi, is an Ekoid language of Nigeria and Cameroon spoken by the Ekoi people. The E- in Ejagham represents the class prefix for "language", analogous to the Bantu ki- in KiSwahili
The Ekoi are one of several peoples who use Nsibidi ideographs, and may be the ones that created them.
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Words in Ejagham
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nE* | |
| name | biN* | |
| eye | yir* | |
| ear | tuN* | |
| nose | mi* | |
| tooth | yiN* | |
| tongue | r3bbE* | |
| hand | bo* | |
| blood | y3N* | |
| bone | k3b* | |
| skin | gu* | |
| knee | r3N* | |
| breast | bE* | |
| liver | jiN* | |
| water | àyíb | |
| fire | gun* | |
| sun | juE* | |
| star | runandu* | |
| stone | taE* | |
| mountain | guE* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | jE* | |
| night | ty* | |
| dog | jo* | |
| fish | si* | |
| louse | b3* | |
| one | j3d* | |
| two | baE* | |
| drink | wo* | |
| see | yEn* |
* 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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