Nyangatom
Nyangatom is a Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia and South Sudan.
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Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages include Toposa and Turkana, both of which have a level of mutual intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana.
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Words in Nyangatom
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kile* | |
| name | kuro* | |
| eye | ko5an* | |
| ear | git8* | |
| nose | kume* | |
| tooth | nkEl* | |
| tongue | NajEb* | |
| hand | qan* | |
| blood | qot* | |
| bone | Nqoyo* | |
| skin | aqapEt* | |
| knee | kuN* | |
| breast | qa8in* | |
| liver | man* | |
| water | pi* | |
| fire | k3m* | |
| sun | koloN* | |
| star | aqa5ir* | |
| stone | muru* | |
| mountain | mor* | |
| tree | Nakito* | |
| leaf | kwi* | |
| night | kware* | |
| dog | yiNok* | |
| fish | kolya* | |
| louse | NgilEC* | |
| one | ape* | |
| two | xari* | |
| I | ayo* | |
| you | iyo* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- TurkanaNilotic47% alike
- KaramojongNilotic32% alike
- TesoNilotic32% alike
- DongotonoNilotic21% alike
- Lango-Logire-LogirNilotic20% alike
- LopitNilotic19% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · nyan1315 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · nnj