Tikar
Tikar is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon.
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Tikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies, who speak their own dialect of the language. A recent hypothesis by Roger Blench suggests that the Tikar language could be a divergent language in the Niger-Congo language family with an uncertain origin.
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Words in Tikar
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mwum* | |
| name | Zi* | |
| eye | E* | |
| ear | ywi7* | |
| nose | zwi7* | |
| tooth | i* | |
| tongue | ɗimɔꞌ | |
| hand | fya7* | |
| blood | mvEb* | |
| bone | wEb* | |
| skin | kwE7* | |
| knee | dwi* | |
| breast | 5won* | |
| liver | kwum* | |
| water | mlǎꞌ | |
| fire | win* | |
| sun | 5wo7* | |
| star | 5wap7* | |
| stone | li* | |
| mountain | kpa* | |
| tree | NgE7* | |
| leaf | an* | |
| night | kpon* | |
| dog | nTwi7* | |
| fish | giSi* | |
| louse | ble* | |
| one | mbo7* | |
| two | bi* | |
| drink | nwi* | |
| see | yEn* |
* 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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