Iraqw
Iraqw is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tanzania, by about 460 thousand people.
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Iraqw () is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha and Manyara Regions. It is expanding in numbers as the Iraqw people absorb neighbouring ethnic groups. The language has many Datooga loanwords, especially in poetic language. The Gorowa language, to the south, shares numerous similarities and is sometimes considered a dialect.
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Words in Iraqw
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | ameeni | |
| person | he* | |
| name | uma* | |
| eye | ila* | |
| ear | i7a* | |
| nose | duNa7* | |
| tooth | siXino* | |
| tongue | tifraNw* | |
| hand | dawa* | |
| blood | tere* | |
| bone | fara* | |
| skin | kahari* | |
| knee | guruNgura* | |
| breast | isaNw* | |
| liver | da7aye* | |
| water | ma'ay | |
| fire | asla* | |
| sun | lo7a* | |
| star | tataX* | |
| stone | LaXa* | |
| mountain | Loma* | |
| river | yaaee | |
| tree | xa'ano | |
| leaf | loXi* | |
| night | xwera* | |
| dog | se7ay* | |
| fish | siyo* | |
| louse | itna* | |
| one | wak | |
| two | tar* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · iraq1241 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · irk