Seeku
Seeku is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso.
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Sembla, Sambla,or Seenku, is a Western Mande language within the Samogo group of Burkina Faso. The northern dialect called Timiku and the southern one called Gbeneku are easily intelligible.
The language is also known as Samogho and "Southern Samo", which is also the name of one of the Samo languages.
This language also has a complex speech replacement system, which is implemented on the Sambla balafon, where the words of the Sambla language are translated into music, similar to the more famous talking drum communication.
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Words in Seeku
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mo* | |
| name | togo* | |
| eye | dyuni* | |
| ear | to* | |
| nose | bunu* | |
| tooth | cen* | |
| tongue | nen* | |
| hand | kyE* | |
| bone | ko* | |
| skin | tsun* | |
| knee | tyimi* | |
| breast | kyE* | |
| liver | boron* | |
| water | jó | |
| fire | ta* | |
| sun | sonta* | |
| star | kalE* | |
| stone | kunun* | |
| mountain | dyun* | |
| tree | go* | |
| leaf | tiri* | |
| night | gwo* | |
| dog | dyige* | |
| fish | kwE* | |
| one | soen* | |
| two | fi* | |
| you | a* | |
| we | wi* | |
| drink | mi* | |
| see | dyo* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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