Obolo
Obolo is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria, by about 318 thousand people.
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Obolo (or Andoni) is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. It is the most divergent language in the Lower Cross (LC) subgroup of Cross River, which is a branch of Benue-Congo. Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger, better known as Andoni (the origin of this latter name being uncertain). Obolo refers to the people, the language as well as the land. It is an agglutinative, an SVO and a tonal language.
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Words in Obolo
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ne* | |
| name | riEN* | |
| eye | CiEN* | |
| ear | toN* | |
| nose | NwoN* | |
| tooth | jEt* | |
| tongue | lom* | |
| hand | kaEjitubok* | |
| blood | je* | |
| bone | kwuk* | |
| skin | kpa* | |
| knee | kwatukot* | |
| breast | bE* | |
| water | ḿmún̄ | |
| fire | kaN* | |
| sun | ra* | |
| star | truoyaN* | |
| stone | wu* | |
| mountain | goN* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | NwaN* | |
| night | ririEN* | |
| dog | bo* | |
| fish | riN* | |
| louse | duk* | |
| one | ge* | |
| two | iba* | |
| I | Emi* | |
| you | owu* | |
| we | Ezi* |
* 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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