Ngasa
Ngasa was a Nilotic language once spoken in Tanzania and Kenya.
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Ongamo, or Ngasa, is an extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is closely related to the Maa languages, but more distantly than they are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, Samburu, and Camus. Speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.
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Words in Ngasa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | otuNani* | |
| name | naharna* | |
| eye | nahoNu* | |
| ear | naSo* | |
| nose | okumie* | |
| tooth | ohaai* | |
| tongue | oNaTabi* | |
| hand | nahana* | |
| bone | ohoito* | |
| skin | naSoni* | |
| knee | okuN* | |
| breast | okina* | |
| liver | namau5a* | |
| water | nahara* | |
| fire | nakima* | |
| sun | nahooN* | |
| star | ohakarai* | |
| mountain | nadoNe* | |
| leaf | nakuTeti* | |
| night | Sarie* | |
| fish | siNki* | |
| louse | ohaSeni* | |
| one | obo* | |
| two | ara* | |
| I | nanu* | |
| you | iyye* | |
| we | iyyo* | |
| drink | mat* | |
| hear | niN* | |
| full | but* |
* 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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Glottolog · ngas1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · nsg