Kaansa
Kaansa is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Burkina Faso.
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Kaansa, also known as Gan (Gã), is a Gur language of Burkina Faso.
A Latin script orthography with 29 letters (including extended characters) and three diacritics (the language has four tones) was developed beginning in the 1990s with the help of Stuart and Cathie Showalter, an American missionary couple.
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Words in Kaansa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nina* | |
| name | 5isi* | |
| eye | yibi* | |
| ear | 5ita* | |
| nose | 5itamara* | |
| tooth | yigi* | |
| tongue | dele* | |
| hand | de* | |
| blood | tana* | |
| bone | tuhub* | |
| skin | kpo7ro* | |
| knee | huLoN* | |
| breast | 5i* | |
| liver | taha* | |
| water | yo* | |
| fire | na* | |
| sun | khaga* | |
| star | kosa* | |
| stone | pur* | |
| mountain | tati* | |
| tree | tahu* | |
| leaf | taNwa* | |
| night | insi* | |
| dog | bErmE* | |
| fish | buro* | |
| one | tikpo* | |
| two | i5o* | |
| see | ke* | |
| die | hu* | |
| come | ba* |
* 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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