Kaba
Kaba is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Chad and Central African Republic.
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Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the Sara people in Central African Republic and Chad, with around 100,000 speakers.
There are several languages named Kaba, which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to Sara. Kaba of Gore is confusing classified as a Sara rather than as a Kaba language.
Kabba is a tonal language. There are three tones, High (H) Mid (M) and Low (L).
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Words in Kaba
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | dew* | |
| name | ri* | |
| eye | kem* | |
| ear | mbi* | |
| nose | kakewum* | |
| tooth | NgaNge* | |
| tongue | ndo* | |
| hand | ji* | |
| blood | mese* | |
| bone | siNga* | |
| skin | endar* | |
| knee | gol* | |
| breast | mba* | |
| liver | wur* | |
| water | man* | |
| fire | puru* | |
| sun | kare* | |
| star | endeterende* | |
| stone | yer* | |
| mountain | yer* | |
| tree | kake* | |
| night | til* | |
| dog | bisi* | |
| fish | kanji* | |
| louse | ndisa* | |
| one | kara* | |
| two | jo* | |
| I | m* | |
| you | e* | |
| we | j* |
* 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 · kaba1281 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ksp