Kabalai
Kabalai is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Chad. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Kabalai (Kaba Lai) is Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southwest Chad.
From Wikipedia · Kabalai language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kabalai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ba* | |
| name | kusi* | |
| eye | Cidi* | |
| ear | sami* | |
| nose | 7indi* | |
| tooth | kasndi* | |
| tongue | klandi* | |
| hand | k3bi* | |
| blood | kabr3* | |
| bone | 73s3* | |
| skin | bala* | |
| knee | gubay* | |
| breast | kuba* | |
| water | kam3* | |
| fire | tuwa* | |
| sun | t3sa* | |
| star | t3sa* | |
| stone | kuj3* | |
| tree | hara* | |
| leaf | harasami* | |
| night | d3ma* | |
| dog | gara* | |
| fish | kusa* | |
| louse | g3rsa* | |
| one | p3na* | |
| two | suwa* | |
| I | 7wun3N* | |
| you | C3baN* | |
| drink | bas3* | |
| see | bagwal* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · kaba1292 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kvf