Sagala
Sagala is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania, by about 79 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Sagara (Sagala) is a Bantu language of the Morogoro and Dodoma regions of Tanzania. It is sometimes called Southern Sagala to distinguish it from the Sagalla language of Kenya (Northern Sagala); the similarity of the names is a coincidence.
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Words in Sagala
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | munu* | |
| name | tagwa* | |
| eye | ziso* | |
| ear | guti* | |
| nose | la* | |
| tooth | zino* | |
| tongue | limi* | |
| hand | oko* | |
| blood | damu* | |
| bone | fupa* | |
| skin | hingo* | |
| knee | fundo* | |
| breast | tombo* | |
| liver | toga* | |
| water | renga* | |
| fire | oto* | |
| sun | zua* | |
| star | yerezi* | |
| stone | ganga* | |
| mountain | tunda* | |
| tree | biSi* | |
| leaf | nyasi* | |
| night | ro* | |
| dog | bwa* | |
| fish | somba* | |
| louse | ni* | |
| one | imwe* | |
| two | nyeri* | |
| I | heni* | |
| you | hegwe* |
* 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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