Guduf-Gava
Guduf-Gava is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Guduf-Gava (also known as Gudupe, Afkabiye) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria. In a 2006 paper, Roger Blench classified Cineni as a dialect.
Blench (2019) lists Cikide as a dialect of Guduf.
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Words in Guduf-Gava
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | wuda* | |
| name | daxa* | |
| eye | diya* | |
| ear | Lima* | |
| nose | xut3ra* | |
| tooth | Lida* | |
| tongue | irxa* | |
| blood | v3Za* | |
| bone | L3La* | |
| skin | vixa* | |
| knee | gwica* | |
| breast | wuba* | |
| liver | 8ica* | |
| water | yiwa* | |
| fire | kara* | |
| sun | f3ciya* | |
| star | kw3838a* | |
| stone | kura* | |
| mountain | xuba* | |
| tree | ufa* | |
| leaf | Lima* | |
| night | vidiya* | |
| dog | xuda* | |
| fish | kilifa* | |
| louse | cica* | |
| one | kyek* | |
| two | mic* | |
| drink | ax3buwa* | |
| see | nugacina* | |
| hear | cunacina* |
* 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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