Saya
Saya is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria, by about 300 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Saya (Sayanci, Zaar) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria.
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Words in Saya
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | zar* | |
| name | s3m* | |
| eye | yir* | |
| ear | k3m* | |
| nose | nyic3n* | |
| tooth | Sin* | |
| tongue | rils3n* | |
| hand | tas* | |
| blood | voraN* | |
| bone | mot* | |
| skin | lat* | |
| knee | gamvor3N* | |
| breast | mam* | |
| liver | mbati* | |
| water | Za* | |
| fire | wut* | |
| sun | caN* | |
| star | Car* | |
| stone | pus* | |
| mountain | wur* | |
| tree | gwas* | |
| leaf | pac3* | |
| night | kavit* | |
| dog | kadi* | |
| fish | gyas* | |
| louse | s3r* | |
| one | namboN* | |
| two | b3tl3n* | |
| I | myan* | |
| you | kyan* |
* 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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