Mbe
Mbe is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria.
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Mbe is a language spoken by the Mbube people of the Ogoja, Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 65,000 people in 2011. As the closest relative of the Ekoid family of the Southern Bantoid languages, Mbe is fairly close to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun-class system.
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Words in Mbe
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mom* | |
| name | len* | |
| eye | li* | |
| ear | tue* | |
| nose | luEl* | |
| tooth | ko* | |
| tongue | lEm* | |
| hand | be* | |
| blood | luoN* | |
| bone | TiTie* | |
| knee | lu* | |
| breast | bEl* | |
| liver | baro* | |
| water | lEb* | |
| fire | muen* | |
| sun | mu* | |
| stone | tal* | |
| mountain | kuEl* | |
| tree | Ti* | |
| leaf | yian* | |
| night | Tu* | |
| dog | pie* | |
| fish | Su* | |
| louse | buab* | |
| one | me* | |
| two | pual* | |
| drink | 5ue* | |
| see | kEl* | |
| hear | yuo* | |
| die | wu* |
* 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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