African Words, Numerals, and Sentences
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(Used by Former Slaves in Georgia and South Carolina in the 1890s)<\/p>\n
Taken from John W. Blassingame,
\n“The Slave Community,”
\n(c) 1979, Oxford Community Press.,
\nAppendix II<\/p>\n
Table I: African Words
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\n alligator ngundo hoe sengo<\/p>\n
baby mauna hog gooloo
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\n back nema horse valo
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\n banana biteba house dro; nzo; bindu
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\n beads nzeembo knife mbala<\/p>\n
bear nzow land nte; nsetu
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\n beard njavo lie gange<\/p>\n
belly vomo love zola
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\n skin seat cando; conda man (young) tucka; mayuc’kala
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\n bird noona man (white) feata
\n _
\n boat coombay man (colored) feta
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\n boy muana tucka meat zimbezy<\/p>\n
bread dimpa money nzeembo
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\n butterbeans mongongo monkey cawah
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\n butterfly lumpungo moon gonda<\/p>\n
cat boomba; mboomba partridges goomba; kimbimbe
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\n chickens susu peach ncepho
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\n cities mbamba peanuts gooba; drangay
\n , .
\n cloth nlilly peas madaza; zangy
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\n clouds ma tute pipe torida
\n _
\n coon bungee pot canzo
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\n corn massa; massango rabbit loomba<\/p>\n
coconut lombo rain mvoola
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\n cow gomby rock matade
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\n dance zacccomma sense gangu
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\n dead fuedy sheep mamamy
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\n deer paccasa; mibunga shoulder vambo
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\n devil doky sky zulu
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\n dirt ntoto snakes neoka
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\n doctor ganga spider sembe<\/p>\n
dog boa squirrel gemo; conka<\/p>\n
ear kootoo stars birtity
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\n eyes maso steel weer
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\n fire bazo; tuvia sun tango; muany<\/p>\n
fish golla sweet potatoes zeembala
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\n fly pesse teeth mano
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\n foot tamby tobacco soonga
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\n fox coomba water lango; maza
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\n give me kala watermelon malengy
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\n gun cully whiskey malavo
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\n hair suky; truky women canto<\/p>\n
hand corko women old bauba<\/p>\n
head ntu women (young) ndoomba
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Table II: African Numerals
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\n1: corse 20: makamorly
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\n2: corla 21: makamorly enwano
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\n3: kootatoo 22: makamorly ezoly
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\n4: kooya 23: makamorly etatoo
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\n5: kootano 24: makamorly eya’
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\n6: koosambano 25: makamorly etano
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\n7: tambwody 26: makamorly esambano
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\n8: nana 27: makamorly ensambody
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\n9: evwa 28: makamorly enana
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\n10: koome 29: makamorly evwa
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\n11: koome emorse 30: makomatatoo
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\n12: koome enzole 40: makomaya
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\n13: koome entate 50: makomatano
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\n14: koome eya’ 60: makomasambano
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\n15: koome entano 70: lusambody
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\n16: koome ensambano 80: luovwa
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\n17: koome ensambody 90: lunana
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\n18: koome enana 100: kama
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\n19: koome evwa
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Table III: Sentences Employing African Words
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Ukola? How do you do?<\/p>\n
Quer quenda? Where are you going?
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\nPahnam bezy. Give me some meat.
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\nWenda twas mona kona keamvo. Carry me across the river.<\/p>\n
Vo vonda ngondo. Kill that alligator.
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\nSheka. Shoot him.
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\nBorkala. Call him.<\/p>\n
Weeza. Come here.
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\nZola ana aku? Do you love your children?<\/p>\n
Inga (or yinga). Yes.<\/p>\n
Gogomby. No (or, Go away).
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\nYala kayala. He is very sick.
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\nWenda baka ganga. Go bring the doctor.
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\nFuedy. He is dead.
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\nA canto ana yaku? How many wives have you?
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\nKutatu. Three.
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\nUngaya muana ngo? Have you seen any lions?
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\nNoka kunoka. It is going to rain.
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\nWenda banga tevia. Go build a fire.
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\nMuany yama. The sun is hot.
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\nUnga gwaku wona yaku ungayi? Are you living with your mother?
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\nYala Where pains you?
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\nNtu bwanga. My head aches.
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\nNzala. I am hungry.
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\nMano ganze. My tooth aches.
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\nRuaka mbala. I cut him with a knife.<\/p>\n
A kway tukiddy? How far away does he live?
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\nWuto Coonawany. I was born in Coonawany.
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\nMazo Mazema. He is blind.
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