Yela-Kela
Yela-Kela is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Congo - Kinshasa.
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Kela (Ikela, Okela), or Lemba, and Yela are a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Kasai-Oriental, where the spoken dialect is "Kela", and Équateur Province, where the spoken dialect is "Yela".
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Words in Yela-Kela
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nto* | |
| name | ina* | |
| eye | so* | |
| ear | toi* | |
| nose | odo* | |
| tooth | ino* | |
| tongue | demu* | |
| blood | doNgo* | |
| bone | ese* | |
| skin | poso* | |
| knee | oNgo* | |
| breast | EdE* | |
| liver | piko* | |
| water | asi* | |
| fire | Ta* | |
| sun | ane* | |
| star | yoto* | |
| stone | baNga* | |
| mountain | Nonji* | |
| tree | soNgo* | |
| leaf | kasi* | |
| night | oTo* | |
| dog | bwa* | |
| fish | se* | |
| louse | sidi* | |
| one | poko* | |
| two | pe* | |
| drink | mEd* | |
| see | En* | |
| hear | ok* |
* 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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Glottolog · yela1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · yel