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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]...
+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]
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+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):
+aa ae ai ao au
+ba be bi bo bu// 'ba 'be 'bi 'bo 'bu
+cha che chi cho chu
+da de di do du// 'da 'de 'di 'do 'du
+ea ee ei eo eu
+fa fe fi fo fu
+ga ge gi go gu
+ha he hi ho hu
+ia ie ii io iu
+ja je ji jo ju
+ka ke ki ko ku
+la le li lo lu
+ma me mi mo mu
+na ne ni no nu
+oa oe oi oo ou
+pa pe pi po pu
+ra re ri ro ru
+sa se si so su
+ta te ti to tu
+ua ue ui uu uo
+va ve vi vo vu
+wa we wi wo wu// 'wa 'we 'wi 'wo 'wu
+ya ye yi yo yu// 'ya 'ye 'yi 'yo 'yu
+za ze zi zo zu
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