Kumam
Kumam is a Nilotic language spoken in Uganda.
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Kumam is a language of the Southern Lwoo group spoken by the Kumam people of Uganda. It is estimated that the Kumam dialect has 82 percent lexical similarity with the Acholi dialect, and 81 percent with the Lango dialect.
From Wikipedia · Kumam dialect · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kumam
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | yo* | |
| name | 5iN* | |
| eye | waN* | |
| ear | it* | |
| nose | um* | |
| tooth | lak* | |
| tongue | lEb* | |
| hand | TiN* | |
| blood | maiam | |
| bone | Togo* | |
| skin | del* | |
| knee | ToN* | |
| breast | tuno* | |
| liver | Ema5* | |
| water | nigl | |
| fire | maT* | |
| sun | TeN* | |
| star | aTEr* | |
| stone | ENaro* | |
| mountain | moru* | |
| tree | yat* | |
| leaf | bokE* | |
| night | iwor* | |
| dog | ogwok* | |
| fish | dEknam* | |
| louse | o5ogo* | |
| one | aTEl* | |
| two | are* | |
| I | aNo* | |
| you | in* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- AdholaNilotic67% alike
- Lango (Uganda)Nilotic62% alike
- AlurNilotic59% alike
- AcoliNilotic58% alike
- LuoNilotic56% alike
- Belanda BorNilotic52% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · kuma1275 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kdi