Lobi
Lobi is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, by about 440 thousand people.
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Lobi (also Miwa and Lobiri) is a Gur language of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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Written down
Teehuu sʋnɔ n ther ɛɛ nɩɩ bʋnɔ wa n do deeaʔ sɩ wʋ n makha samɩnɩ na nà hʋ tɩnɛpar rà. Thangba ti yɛr à pɛ yɛr jɩɩr nà fɩlwɛ sɩ a teena waan fʋkha omkhaa.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Lobi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | tibil* | |
| name | 7iri* | |
| eye | yiri* | |
| ear | nu* | |
| nose | meNkar* | |
| tooth | 5enE* | |
| tongue | delebiri* | |
| hand | 5o* | |
| blood | tomin* | |
| bone | khubu* | |
| skin | lor* | |
| knee | nokhelu* | |
| breast | ilnE* | |
| liver | har* | |
| water | yon* | |
| fire | do* | |
| sun | wiri* | |
| star | yep3l3mbiri* | |
| stone | bokar* | |
| mountain | gogon* | |
| tree | theru* | |
| leaf | fa* | |
| night | ditino* | |
| dog | bin* | |
| fish | thom* | |
| louse | yudo* | |
| one | beEl* | |
| two | yo* | |
| I | mErE* | |
| you | fErE* |
* 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 · lobi1245 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · lob