Mbugwe
Mbugwe is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Mbugwe or Mbuwe (Kimbugwe) is a Bantu language spoken by the Mbugwe people of Lake Manyara in the Manyara Region of Central Tanzania. Mbugwe is estimated to be spoken by some 34,000 people.
Mbugwe is isolated from other Bantu languages, being bordered by the locally dominant Cushitic language Iraqw to the west, the Gorowa language (or dialect of Iraqw) to the south, the Nilotic Maasai language to the east, and the lake to the north. It shares about 70% vocabulary with its Bantu cousin Rangi.
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Words in Mbugwe
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nto* | |
| name | ina* | |
| eye | iso* | |
| ear | tu* | |
| nose | pola* | |
| tooth | ao* | |
| tongue | reme* | |
| hand | kono* | |
| blood | ari* | |
| bone | kufa* | |
| skin | beru* | |
| knee | ru* | |
| breast | tombo* | |
| liver | tema* | |
| water | aTe* | |
| fire | oto* | |
| sun | Tova* | |
| star | Tuta* | |
| stone | we* | |
| mountain | embe* | |
| tree | te* | |
| leaf | sambe* | |
| night | tiku* | |
| dog | diyo* | |
| fish | siye* | |
| louse | poti* | |
| one | mo* | |
| two | vere* | |
| I | ne* | |
| you | we* |
* 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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