The ASJP Database - Wordlist Ndam

Wordlist Ndam

Showing 1 to 41 of 41 entries

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

1	I	I	na	False
2	you	THOU	ye	False
2	you	THOU	ma	False
3	we	WE	na	False
11	one	ONE	man	False
12	two	TWO	sa	False
18	person	PERSON	bor	False
19	fish	FISH	ba	False
21	dog	DOG	goy	False
22	louse	LOUSE	ng~arsa	False
23	tree	TREE	adu	False
25	leaf	LEAF	poli5	False
28	skin	SKIN	gare	False
30	blood	BLOOD	bar	False
31	bone	BONE	guse	False
34	horn	HORN (ANATOMY)	tug3n	False
39	ear	EAR	ham	False
40	eye	EYE	ci	False
41	nose	NOSE	tan	False
43	tooth	TOOTH	han	False
44	tongue	TONGUE	das	False
47	knee	KNEE	gub	False
48	hand	HAND	kaga	False
51	breast	BREAST	sid	False
53	liver	LIVER	talu	False
54	drink	DRINK	s3ga	False
57	see	SEE	k3la	False
58	hear	HEAR	giyuxa	False
61	die	DIE	miya	False
66	come	COME	ugo	False
72	sun	SUN	yow	False
74	star	STAR	s3ga	False
75	water	WATER	nam	False
77	stone	STONE	kula	False
82	fire	FIRE	dow	False
85	path	PATH	5ila	False
86	mountain	MOUNTAIN	gikuru	False
92	night	NIGHT	inyan	False
95	full	FULL	yedyed	False
96	new	NEW	pati	False
100	name	NAME	ham	False

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Coordinates WGS84

9°47'N, 17°20'E
9.79, 17.33

number of speakers	6,500
status	alive

WALS: AA > East Chadic
Glottolog: Afro Asiatic > Chadic > Eastchadic > Eastchadica > Eastchadica.1 > Eastchadica.11
Ethnologue: Afro Asiatic > Chadic > East > A > A.1 > 1

Bross 1988: Materialen zur Sprache der Ndam von Dik (Republik Tschad): Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie. Marburg: Philipps-Universität Marburg MA thesis.
Lane 1989: Toward understanding multilingualism among the Mbete of Northern Congo (Bantu, Africa). Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington MA thesis.