Luguru
Luguru is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania, by about 692 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Luguru (Swahili: Kiluguru) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luguru people of the Morogoro region and the Pwani region of Tanzania. The name is also spelled Lughuru, Lugulu, Ruguru. It is closely related to Gogo and Zaramo, but is not intelligible with other languages.
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Words in Luguru
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | munu* | |
| name | tagwa* | |
| eye | nenge* | |
| ear | gutwi* | |
| nose | mula* | |
| tooth | zino* | |
| tongue | ulurimi* | |
| blood | mlapo* | |
| bone | pate* | |
| knee | fundo* | |
| breast | tombo* | |
| liver | kini* | |
| water | matsi | |
| fire | mwaki* | |
| sun | zua* | |
| star | nondo* | |
| stone | bwe* | |
| mountain | dunda* | |
| tree | biki* | |
| leaf | vulu* | |
| night | Ciro* | |
| dog | yumbwa* | |
| fish | isamaki* | |
| louse | mani* | |
| two | weli* | |
| I | nene* | |
| you | gwegwe* | |
| we | tuyu* | |
| drink | nwa* | |
| see | ona* |
* 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 · lugu1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ruf