Upload Lugbara Words (Speech-2-Text).txt

Lugbara Words (Speech-2-Text).txt

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-Apostrophe stands for the sound H eg 'ba = bha [person]...
-Consonants do not have to be repeated eg Mekki = Meki; Oluffe = Olufe; Owaffa = Owafa; etc, but repeating vowels must mean something or remain ambiguously redundant eg leta-a [in love]...
+Consonants do not have to be repeated when writing Lugbara eg Mekki = Meki; Oluffe = Olufe; Owaffa = Owafa; etc, but repeating vowels means something or becomes ambiguously redundant eg leta-a [in love]...
 Every Lugbara word ends with a vowel eg simu [phone]...
 In clusters DJ, GB and KP, the first letter is silent eg odji = oji [wash]; gbanda = banda [cassava]; okpo = opo [power]. Meanwhile MV is pronounced NV eg omve [call] while NZ is pronounced NJ eg Inzikuru...
 Letter C is always pronounced CH as in Church eg candi = chandi [sorrow]...
-Some words have two or more meanings depending on the tone of the vowel(s) eg ai can mean salt, pray, beg or Atifiso Intelijensi...
-Various Lugbara dialects (Aringa, Ayivu, Koboko, Maracha, Madi-Okolo, Terego, Vura, Zaki, etc) may pronounce words differently eg nya (in Ayivu) = na (in Terego) [eat]
+Letters Q and X are not used in Lugbara, but four unique ones are added with an apostrophe to indicate the sound H eg 'B = Bha, etc meaning the Simplified Lugbara Alphabet has 28 letters...
+Some words have more than one meaning depending on the tone of the vowel(s) eg ai can mean salt, pray, beg or Atifiso Intelijensi...
+Various Lugbara dialects (Aringa, Ayivu, Maracha, Madi-Okolo, Terego, Vura, Zaki, etc) may pronounce words differently eg nya (in Ayivu) = na (in Terego) [eat]
 
-SIMPLE LUGBARA VOCABULARY (The words below are exactly 140 (that is 28 letters times 5), but the possible English meanings are more than that depending on vowel tones):
+SIMPLIFIED LUGBARA (The words below are exactly 140, but possible English meanings are so much more that the old vocabulary used to be small):
 aa ae ai ao au
 ba be bi bo bu// 'ba 'be 'bi 'bo 'bu
-cha che chi cho chu
+ca ce ci co cu
 da de di do du// 'da 'de 'di 'do 'du
 ea ee ei eo eu
 fa fe fi fo fu