Upload Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (since 2016).txt

Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary (since 2016).txt

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ Ajai (n) game reserve east of Arua City on Rhino Camp Road, used to be famous fo
 
 Ajara (n) suburb or parish in Ayivu north of Manibe on Koboko Highway after Enyau River, near Omi
 
-aje (adv) yesterday; (n) buying, cost, value (also ajeni), price; traditional marriage where a groom pays a cow for the bride plus extra cows depending on number of children born, give away, kwanjula (also ajeta) eg Ndri ma aje Yuganda ma Silingi 50,000 eli 2017 si. = The price of a goat was 50,000 Ugandan Shillings in 2017.
+aje (adv) yesterday; (n) buying, cost, value (also ajeni), price; traditional marriage where a groom pays one cow for the bride plus extra cows depending on number of children (to be) born, transfer of wealth between two families so that a male from one plus a female from the other can produce children, give away, kwanjula (also ajeta) eg Ndri ma aje Yuganda ma Silingi 50,000 eli 2017 si. = The price of a goat was 50,000 Ugandan Shillings in 2017.
 
 aje koko (adj) free, priceless, cheap eg buku aje koko = free book
 
@@ -1804,7 +1804,9 @@ deru'bo (adj) finished (also derura)
 
 desi (conj) when (also de) eg Ayirini Manzeri mu 'Bu-a desi eri eli 11. = Irene Manjeri went to Heaven when she was 11 years old.
 
-deza (adj) old
+desu (conj) yet
+
+deza (adj) old, (n) old person
 
 di (conj) so; (v) box, punch; bore; shine
 
@@ -2880,6 +2882,8 @@ Idi (n) Africanised name for the Arabic word Eid, Muslim feast at the end of Ram
 
 idia (n) laity, church commoners (also kiti)
 
+idiko (n) small seeded fruit
+
 idra (n) mother-in-law (also idrapi)
 
 idri (n) life; (v) send, pass (also edri) eg Hezekiya awi idri ru eli 15 dika. = Hezekiah stayed alive for 15 more years.
@@ -3086,7 +3090,7 @@ irizori (adj) the second one (also irizo, irizuri) eg Danielu Arapu Moi ni andra
 
 isaku (n) sieve, container with holes at the bottom for filtering local salt or aitipa from ash
 
-ise (n) grasshopper (also ese), symbol in Maracha; (v) pull (also ese) eg Ise Nyendo (Masaka)-a angiri. = Grasshoppers are plenty in Nyendo (Masaka).
+ise (n) grasshopper (also ese), symbol in Maracha; (v) pull, homorocoryphus nitidulus (scientific name), nsenene in Luganda, ensenene in Runyankore eg Ise Nyendo (Masaka)-a angiri. = Grasshoppers are plenty in Nyendo (Masaka).
 
 isekise (n) gum, glue
 
@@ -4630,6 +4634,8 @@ noti (n) note
 
 noza (n) roaring
 
+nsenene (n) grasshopper clan in Buganda (with names like Kalibala, Kawalya, Kimera, Masembe, Mwebe, etc)
+
 ntula (n) green berries
 
 Nubi (adj, n) Nubian tribe
@@ -4958,6 +4964,8 @@ onokono (n) praying mantis
 
 ode (adj) young, youthful
 
+odo (n) small round fruit
+
 odrota (n) chase
 
 odru (n) buffalo eg Odru fu Anira ni te/ Odru fu Anera ni te! = A buffalo killed Anira (who thought he knew it all)/ Anera (who thought she had seen it all)/ Listen to advice! [Lugbara Proverbs]
@@ -6536,7 +6544,7 @@ tekinoloji (n) technology eg Baidu ni tekinoloji ayu wudrikuru mbazaru ri ede ew
 
 Televizoni (n) Television, TV (also Tivi, Tava) eg Ongo ni avi Westinailu Televizoni-a = Music is playing on Westnile Television.
 
-tena (n) tennis, tenor voice eg Stefi Grafu ni tena avi. = Steffi Graf is playing tennis.
+tena (conj) yet (also desu), (n) tennis, tenor voice eg Stefi Grafu ni tena avi. = Steffi Graf is playing tennis.
 
 tepu n) tape
 
@@ -6636,7 +6644,7 @@ tro (adv) even though, even if, (v) become soft like overcooked meat
 
 trotro (adj) equal, the same eg Kijomoro "FC" azini "URA" de mupira trotro. = Kijomoro FC and URA ended the football game equal.
 
-tru (v) forgive, remove (clothes), take off, untie, move
+tru (v) forgive, remove (clothes), take off, untie, move eg Bishopu Yohana Babu kini: Itru 'ba! = Bishop John Babu said: Forgive people!
 
 truta (n) forgiveness (also truza, pata) eg Oguo ai truta YESU vu musalaba sia. = The thief begged for forgiveness from JESUS on the cross.
 
@@ -7037,6 +7045,33 @@ zuru (adj) full to the brim
 zuzu (adv) everyday, daily
 
 
+SIMPLIFIED LUGBARA (The words below are exactly 140 though possible English meanings are so much more. Only letters Q and X are missing, but four new ones are added with an apostrophe representing the sound H):
+aa ae ai ao au
+ba be bi bo bu// 'ba 'be 'bi 'bo 'bu
+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
+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 uo uu
+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
+
+
 Kalafe [Numbers]:
 0. Toko/ Ogbo
 
@@ -7472,7 +7507,7 @@ Madi Moyo = Au logo
 
 Madi Okollo = Ndri [Goat]/ Aswa (Luganda: Enswa) [Whiteants mixed in paste like kumura]?
 
-Maracha = Kulu, Ise [Locust (Swarming Grasshopper), Common Grasshopper known as Nsenene]
+Maracha = Kulu, Ise [Locust (Swarming Grasshopper), Common Bush-Cricket Grasshopper known as Nsenene]
 
 Obongi = Aji i'bini [Fish Eagle]
 
@@ -7527,7 +7562,7 @@ This is when the sound of a distant thunder is heard. The start of the rainy sea
 
 4. Aprili (Ayi Ti)
 
-This is the start of the wet season. Literally translates into "The mouth of the wet spring season" or the beginning of the spring season with light rains still punctuated with sunny days. Groundnuts are planted in specially prepared gardens.
+This is the start of the wet season or spring with light rains still punctuated with sunny days. Groundnuts are planted in specially prepared gardens.
 
 5. Mayi (Ayi Eti)
 
@@ -7555,7 +7590,7 @@ A period of delight when food is plenty. "Abibi" in colloquial Lugbarati merely
 
 11. Novemba (Waa)
 
-This means a circle or a period. The period of ups and downs is almost over. Remember, colloquial Lugbarati uses a lot of paradoxes. Food is still in plenty and local brews are consumed as much as possible as if there is no tomorrow.
+This means a circle or a period. The period of ups and downs is almost over. Remember, colloquial Lugbarati uses a lot of paradoxes. Food is still in plenty and local brews are consumed as much as possible as if there is no tomorrow. It's called Musenene in Runyankore-Rukiga because of the peak season when grasshoppers fall.
 
 12. Desemba (Anyu Ti)
 
@@ -8314,7 +8349,7 @@ Semakula = Male-given name with meaning related to gains [Se maku la = Pulled th
 
 
 LOST IN TRANSLATION (DREAMCAST):
-This encyclopedic research documentation is inspired by (and dedicated to) Cynthia Letasi, aka Rejoice (The Beautyful One and Green Riding Hood - now Mrs. Mungufeni born on Thursday 17th August 1995; roger that Ayi Kwei Armah) who changed my worldview like a valuable pearl (Matthew 13:45-46), Kumari in the Orient or Divine Feminine between 2001-6; made me feel like Bob Harris in Arua (not Japan) around 2003 because she was 11 years younger than me. Ono omuwala yanmalamu amalala ga kibuga [Luganda for: This girl drained city pride out of me]. To be honest, she was my first true "superhigh" crush within Arua (West Nile) after the Y2K Computer Bug Doom's Day didn't happen though I never told her my exact heartfelt reality for multiple years (Just tried to show it through kind, unapologetic, smile-inducing treatment until she boldly confessed something directly to me that I will treasure until infinity). I adored how her glowing eyes hawked at me (One of my favourite, unforgettable, classy memories about CL). Furthermore, her lookalikes included the volatile Tonto Dikeh (Nigerian), lyric-savvy Sheebah Karungi, decent Betty Mpologoma, carefree (worry-less) Spice Diana as well as easygoing Scarlett Johansson who automatically became my all-time favourites; I knew her before all of them except maybe Betty who began her diamond singing career in 1999. Queenie, one of the lead vocalists in the Miracle Cathedral Rubaga (MCR) Proclaim Music choir also has that Cynthia aura plus Pretty Banks, Sheila Gashumba, etc. Even though I reconnected with Xnthi (nickname I gave her meaning Numberless or Infinite value) via Facebook at the turn of the 2010s, I did not see her again physically until Tuesday 12th February 2019 walking southwards with her darkskinned female friend on the hyper-straight Arua Avenue at the Ediofe Road Junction (while I escorted my cousin to a printshop before he rushed to Onduparaka to see his sister). That was about 13 unlucky years since the last time, but only three surreal days after dreaming about her. I smiled like GOD's sun was shining on me in the afternoon before rush hour; it was the same day Onduparaka drew 0-0 with URA FC in the Ugandan top-flight league. Obsession is not a crime, just harness it like human solar electricity. Disconnection is re-direction; too much love will heal you. Love is indestructible and the Greatest Thing: I admired Cynthia's pleasant appearance and supadupa fluency at a very tender age of 6 to 11 and felt inspired to polish my own linguistics by reading Lugbara afresh since I learnt my mother tongue despite being downgraded as backward in Busoga (Birth to 11 years) and Buganda only by listening to Lugbara people talk. Even though I spoke and understood it, I couldn't transcribe Lugbara well like English but when moonstruck by our Mt. Wati Road (Arua) neighbour's adorable brownskinned daughter, I was motivated to re-study this vernacular from Northwestern Uganda in black and white (using music lyrics, Biblia, Straight Talk newspapers, other literature, then a Fountain Publishers 2009 dictionary compiled by Willy Ngaka, Edward O'du'bua and Paul Iga Ongua [bought for a Twenty10 gig from Sarah Ojirot at Uganda Deaf Women's Organisation], etc). Consequently, I would perhaps grasp Lugbara the way ShaoLan Hsueh created Chineasy, then fabricate my own Synthetic Artificial Lugbara Technology (SALT), Informative Synthetic Encoder (ISE) or Ojapi Converter. Language has to be preserved through documentation and transmitted to anyone connected or interested because cultural heritage represents a collective identity of values, diversity, traditions and assets passed around from generation to generation eg my parents (James + Elizabeth Dramani) to me, though my mother departed in Twenty22 (during Volume 7). Some relatives and natives would laugh at my pronunciations or choice of words but it didn't phase me. I've never been ashamed to be called Omulugwara even if it is a byword for stupidity, Naked People (Only Karamoja was ranked before us) and backwardness among some communities. Aren't we all descendants of Noah, the Flood Survivor? One day, I bypassed two dudes on Acacia Avenue in KLA and heard them speak what sounded like broken Lugbara; I reasoned later that it might have been Madi language. Also, Aringa is like Lugbara Patois or Filipino. During May 2023, someone asked me why I study Lugbara yet it is not useful and I told him not to diss my mother tongue like that; garbage or waste appears worthless until it's recycled and given value: Lugbara is a multinational language spoken mainly across three colonial borders which converge at Salia Musala (about 2 hours by car northwards from Arua City). There are nine Lugbara clans in DR Congo (Kari Culture Minister - John Godo, a UPC stalwart, taught me that in 2009: When I went to Ariwara [inside DRC] the following year, I was stunned by the amount of Lugbara songs playing loudly near the markets). I strongly believe Generative AI can learn Lugbarati and make it reuseable and applicable in various fields; Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), Ambani, Hugging Face, Deep Site, Foundation for Lugbarati Development Initiative (FLUDI) or Lugbara GPT type-of-way. Live translation of President M7's speeches by people like Fred Bada plus other arrangements like crusades, etc can also be a reference... In December 2013, the Lugbarati Language Board proposed an Orthography Guide with 45 letters (including 7 vowels and 38 consonants). Tonal Lugbara literature with its many character symbols (accents, crosses, dashes or hyphens, dots, umlauts, etc) seems advanced plus crowdily complex and scares away learners, but the simpler version shared in this wordbook is legit too... Lugbara funeral songs have been replaced with church hymns and modern Gospel music... In my Allegory of Artificial Ignorance: For machines to learn Lugbara, humans (both self-motivated and paid contributors) must train them or organise datasets for AI to decode unsupervised... Artificial Dreams (or Hallucinations) can also come true like Dreamcast... My makeshift Word Interchange Technique (WIT) from 1996 was not far-fetched afterall (feeling like Michael Jordan versus Detroit Pistons: No rules)...
+This encyclopedic research documentation is inspired by (and dedicated to) Cynthia Letasi, aka Rejoice (The Beautyful One and Green Riding Hood - now Mrs. Mungufeni born on Thursday 17th August 1995; roger that Ayi Kwei Armah) who changed my worldview like a valuable pearl (Matthew 13:45-46), Kumari in the Orient or Divine Feminine between 2001-6; made me feel like Bob Harris in Arua (not Japan) around 2003 because she was 11 years younger than me. Ono omuwala yanmalamu amalala ga kibuga [Luganda for: This girl drained city pride out of me]. To be honest, she was my first true "superhigh" crush within Arua (West Nile) after the Y2K Computer Bug Doom's Day didn't happen though I never told her my exact heartfelt reality for multiple years (Just tried to show it through kind, unapologetic, smile-inducing treatment until she boldly confessed something directly to me that I will treasure until infinity). I adored how her glowing eyes hawked at me (One of my favourite, unforgettable, classy memories about CL). Furthermore, her lookalikes included the volatile Tonto Dikeh (Nigerian), lyric-savvy Sheebah Karungi, decent Betty Mpologoma, carefree (worry-less) Spice Diana as well as easygoing Scarlett Johansson who automatically became my all-time favourites; I knew her before all of them except maybe Betty who began her diamond singing career in 1999. Queenie, one of the lead vocalists in the Miracle Cathedral Rubaga (MCR) Proclaim Music choir also has that Cynthia aura plus Pretty Banks, Sheila Gashumba, etc. Even though I reconnected with Xnthi (nickname I gave her meaning Numberless or Infinite value) via Facebook at the turn of the 2010s, I did not see her again physically until Tuesday 12th February 2019 walking southwards with her darkskinned female friend on the hyper-straight Arua Avenue at the Ediofe Road Junction (while I escorted my cousin to a printshop before he rushed to Onduparaka to see his sister). That was about 13 unlucky years since the last time, but only three surreal days after dreaming about her. I smiled like GOD's sun was shining on me in the afternoon before rush hour; it was the same day Onduparaka drew 0-0 with URA FC in the Ugandan top-flight league. Obsession is not a crime, just harness it like human solar electricity. Disconnection is re-direction; too much love will heal you. Love is indestructible and the Greatest Thing: I admired Cynthia's pleasant appearance and supadupa fluency at a very tender age of 6 to 11 and felt inspired to polish my own linguistics by reading Lugbara afresh since I learnt my mother tongue despite being downgraded as backward in Busoga (Birth to 11 years) and Buganda only by listening to Lugbara people talk. Even though I spoke and understood it, I couldn't transcribe Lugbara well like English but when moonstruck by our Mt. Wati Road (Arua) neighbour's adorable brownskinned daughter, I was motivated to re-study this vernacular from Northwestern Uganda in black and white (using music lyrics, Biblia, Straight Talk newspapers, other literature, then a Fountain Publishers 2009 dictionary compiled by Willy Ngaka, Edward O'du'bua and Paul Iga Ongua [bought for a Twenty10 gig from Sarah Ojirot at Uganda Deaf Women's Organisation], etc). Consequently, I would perhaps grasp Lugbara the way ShaoLan Hsueh created Chineasy, then fabricate my own Synthetic Artificial Lugbara Technology (SALT), Informative Synthetic Encoder (ISE) or Ojapi Converter. Language has to be preserved through documentation and transmitted to anyone connected or interested because cultural heritage represents a collective identity of values, diversity, traditions and assets passed around from generation to generation eg my parents (James + Elizabeth Dramani) to me, though my mother departed in Twenty22 (during Volume 7). Some relatives and natives would laugh at my pronunciations or choice of words but it didn't phase me. I've never been ashamed to be called Omulugwara even if it is a byword for stupidity, Naked People (Only Karamoja was ranked before us) and backwardness among some communities. Aren't we all descendants of Noah, the Flood Survivor? One day, I bypassed two dudes on Acacia Avenue in KLA and heard them speak what sounded like broken Lugbara; I reasoned later that it might have been Madi language. Also, Aringa is like Lugbara Patois or Filipino. During May 2023, someone asked me why I study Lugbara yet it is not useful and I told him not to diss my mother tongue like that; garbage or waste appears worthless until it's recycled and given value: Lugbara is a multinational language spoken mainly across three colonial borders which converge at Salia Musala (about 2 hours by car northwards from Arua City). There are nine Lugbara clans in DR Congo (Kari Culture Minister - John Godo, a UPC stalwart, taught me that in 2009: When I went to Ariwara [inside DRC] the following year, I was stunned by the amount of Lugbara songs playing loudly near the markets). I strongly believe Generative AI can learn Lugbarati and make it reuseable and applicable in various fields; Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), Ambani, Artificial Intelligence for Development-Africa Network (AI4D-Africa), Hugging Face, Deep Site, Foundation for Lugbarati Development Initiative (FLUDI) or Lugbara GPT type-of-way. Live translation of President M7's speeches by people like Fred Bada plus other arrangements like crusades, etc can also be a reference... In December 2013, the Lugbarati Language Board proposed an Orthography Guide with 45 letters (including 7 vowels and 38 consonants). Tonal Lugbara literature with its many character symbols (accents, crosses, dashes or hyphens, dots, umlauts, etc) seems advanced plus crowdily complex and scares away learners, but the simpler version shared in this wordbook is legit too... Lugbara funeral songs have been replaced with church hymns and modern Gospel music... In my Allegory of Artificial Ignorance: For machines to learn Lugbara, humans (both self-motivated and paid contributors) must train them or organise datasets for AI to decode unsupervised... Artificial Dreams (or Hallucinations) can also come true like Dreamcast... My makeshift Word Interchange Technique (WIT) from 1996 was not far-fetched afterall (feeling like Michael Jordan versus Detroit Pistons: No rules)...
 
 When I was in Senior 5 (during 2001), I told my hostelmates that one day there will be a radio device that converts words spoken on air into text like S2T (Speech-2-Text) or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and displayed on a screen (just like we transcribed classroom dictation from teachers). I was labelled "mulalu [Luganda for: mad]" but dreams are not hopeless; GOD's Time brings them to life for instance Google Assistant, Meet (In-chat captions), Apple's Siri, TranSay, Logbar ili, OpenAI's ChatGPT or Whisper, Assembly AI, iFLYTEK, etc. Twitter (X) Spaces is also not very far from my Ongo (Ojapi Converter) vision. Zero-Shot Machine Translation tech is a model that can learn to translate words into another language without having to see any examples... Meta's Universal Speech Translator is a very ambitious AI research project that might improve language-mixing or Computer-Assisted Translation like Google Translate does... LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) which Blake Lamoine labelled "sentient" was originally introduced as Meena in 2020. It's a conversational Large Language Model (LLM) built by Google... The Madi-Lugbara language is related to the languages of Southern Nigeria eg Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, Iduma, Igala, Igbira, Gbari and Nupe. In addition, we can include Ijo and Kalabari of the Niger Delta plus the Bariba - north of Yoruba and Aja (Ewe) spoken in Southern Dahomey (Benin), Togo and South-Eastern Ghana... Some people consider Lugbara a dialect of Madi but many do not accept this theory. In fact, a survey concluded that the Ogoko, Okollo and Rigbo dialects (which are considered Southern Madi or Madi Ndri) should be categorised as dialects of Lugbara. Besides, we share the same names, numbers and many words... In 2020, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, Sunbird AI commenced the African language technology project. They created a large multilingual parallel text dataset of Ugandan languages, with translations in Acholi, Ateso, Luganda, Lugbara and Runyankole. On Saturday 11th October 2025, an AI Language Model called Sunflower (developed by Sunbird) was officially launched and it is described as "the ChatGPT for Uganda"... GeoPoll (a global research organisation) has datasets in Lugbara while JEHOVAH's Witnesses translate their publications into Lugbara (Available at www.jw.org). Companies like Airtel, dfcu Bank, etc also use Lugbara in their electronic platforms... It was very unreal to discover on Sunday 10th September 2023 while googling for "Lugbara AI" that the mother of Jeff Dean (55 year old Google AI Lead then) speaks "fluent Lugbara"; she lived in West Nile when Jeffrey was 5 years old. I guess she knows that Lugbara is learnable by machines; Meta introduced its own AI on WhatsApp a few days later. I love the fact that it paraphrases websites rejected by Wikipedia. Mark Zuckerberg believes AI will make superintelligent multi-lingual connections possible for all. When you copy some of the BigAMBO [Words] in this dictionary and paste as a chat message to Meta AI like a Paul and Silas jailbreak, it can learn Ugandan Lugbara by reading patterns and fine-tuning itself to chat with you even though it used a strange vocabulary as Lugbara in Twenty24 (probably Central or West African) like TranslatorMind the following year. Sam Altman (CEO at Open AI) also revealed that you can add knowledge and create a custom GPT by uploading files in the GPTs App Store. Self-Adapting or Adjusting LLMs (SEAL or SALMs) will learn new words by themselves... Vibe-coding can also help you create Lugbara chatbots plus other software...