Miya
Miya is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria, by about 30 thousand people.
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Miya (Miyawa) is a Chadic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is also referred to as "vә́na mίy" translating to "mouth of miy". There are approximately 5,000 speakers of Miya. It is related to languages such as Hausa, which the Miya people sometimes borrow from.
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Words in Miya
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | s3m* | |
| name | ng3m* | |
| eye | Eti* | |
| ear | kum3y* | |
| nose | Etim* | |
| tooth | tiyim* | |
| tongue | Sinak3n* | |
| blood | p3r3m* | |
| bone | kusi* | |
| skin | pe8Er* | |
| knee | wur3m* | |
| breast | Epi* | |
| liver | s3y* | |
| water | biy | |
| fire | 3ku* | |
| sun | muku* | |
| star | 3SuwoSu* | |
| stone | z3ki* | |
| mountain | d3y* | |
| tree | d3m* | |
| leaf | Lipi* | |
| night | C3mazi* | |
| fish | g3di* | |
| one | wutin* | |
| two | cir* | |
| drink | sa* | |
| see | ne* | |
| hear | dik3y* | |
| die | mit3* | |
| come | b3t3su* |
* 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 · miya1266 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · mkf