Keiga
Keiga is a Kadugli-Krongo language spoken in Sudan. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Keiga, Yega, or Deiga is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Kadu branch spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Dialects are Demik (Rofik) and Keiga proper (Aigang).
Keiga is a VSO language. Reh (1994) instead uses the name Deiga or Dayga, with a prefix d- instead of the place prefix k-.
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Words in Keiga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | 8oTo* | |
| name | ErE* | |
| eye | aye* | |
| ear | naso* | |
| nose | barwok* | |
| tooth | 8igini* | |
| tongue | 8oNodo* | |
| hand | niso* | |
| blood | ari8o* | |
| bone | 8oNuba* | |
| skin | 8o* | |
| knee | mi* | |
| breast | 8onogo* | |
| liver | 5i* | |
| water | bidhi | |
| fire | asi* | |
| sun | aya* | |
| star | 8umadEgEk* | |
| stone | 8imsEnik* | |
| mountain | mia* | |
| tree | 8iNadi* | |
| leaf | ndaro* | |
| night | koso* | |
| dog | ar8eni* | |
| fish | 8inara* | |
| louse | 8iNi8ede* | |
| one | tol* | |
| two | ariTaN* | |
| I | a7a* | |
| you | o7o* |
* 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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Glottolog · keig1242 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kec