Vagla
Vagla is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Ghana.
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Vagla is a Gurunsi (Gur) language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities in the Savannah Region (part of the Northern Region before 2018), Ghana. Such communities includes: Bole, Sawla, Tuna, Soma, Gentilpe, and Nakwabi. The people who speak this language are known as Vaglas, one of the indigenous tribes around that part of the Northern Region, which were brought under the Gonja local administration system "Gonjaland" by British Colonial Rulers under their Centralised System of Governance.
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Words in Vagla
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | newe* | |
| name | soN* | |
| eye | siwi* | |
| ear | dig3ni* | |
| nose | mizi* | |
| tooth | 5iN* | |
| tongue | nuz3Ni* | |
| hand | noni* | |
| blood | Cal* | |
| bone | hog* | |
| skin | hoN* | |
| knee | hahini* | |
| breast | ila* | |
| liver | hia* | |
| water | ñyõ | |
| fire | niN* | |
| sun | wizi* | |
| star | CiNtCiNwili* | |
| stone | bi* | |
| mountain | giNgimi* | |
| tree | da* | |
| leaf | paNw3* | |
| night | hamuNa* | |
| dog | n3ahiN* | |
| fish | 5in* | |
| louse | kpibi* | |
| one | kpekpaN* | |
| two | anE* | |
| I | miN* | |
| you | hiN* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- ChakaliAtlantic-Congo47% alike
- DegAtlantic-Congo30% alike
- TampulmaAtlantic-Congo30% alike
- PaasaalAtlantic-Congo24% alike
- Tumulung SisaalaAtlantic-Congo19% alike
- Western SisaalaAtlantic-Congo19% alike
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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