Icetot
| Icetot | ||
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Spoken in |
Uganda , Kenya | |
| speaker | approx. 7,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | no country | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa (other Nilosaharan languages) |
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The Icetot , often also called Ik, sometimes also called Icietot, Teuso, Teuth or Ngulak, is the language of the Ik people who live in northeast Uganda and Kenya . The Icetot belongs to the eastern Kuliak branch of the East Sudan languages .
Some basic vocabulary words
| Word meaning | Icetot | Word meaning | Icetot |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | ŋka | big | zeha |
| you | bi | small | kwats |
| he she it | ntsa | eat | ŋk ', ŋk'ak'a |
| we | ŋgwa (exclusive), njina (inclusive) | drink | wɛt- |
| her | bita | sleep | ɛpon, ɛp |
| she ( plural ) | nta | to die | bath |
| who? | ndo | go | k'ai, k'oon |
| What? | is | come | ats |
| human | at the | give | mɛɛs |
| man | eakwa | to take | k'anetes, tɔkɔɗɛs, alowes |
| woman | cekam | speak | toda |
| head | ika | love | tsames, miines |
| eye | ekwa | one | can |
| ear | bos | two | leɓetsat |
| nose | ak'at | three | aɗat |
| mouth | aka | four | ts'agusat |
| tooth | kwa | five | tudat |
| tongue | nak'af | six | tudat ndakeɗi kɔn |
| heart | gura | seven | tudat ndakeɗi leɓets |
| hand | kwɛta | eight | tudat ndakeɗi aɗ |
| foot | dɛa | nine | tudat ndakeɗi ts'agus |
| water | cuɛ | ten | tomin |
| Fire | ts'aɗa | twenty | tomin ɛkwa leɓets |
| Sun | fet | hundred | ? |
| moon | aragwan | thousand | ? |
literature
- Bernd Heine : Ik - a residual East African language. Historical development and vocabulary. In: Africa and overseas . Vol. 59, Issue 1, 1975/76, pp. 31-56.
- Bernd Heine: The Ik language. Grammar, vocabulary, and texts . Cologne 1984.
- Bernd Heine: The mountain people: some notes on the Ik of north-eastern Uganda . In: Africa . Vol. 55, Issue 1, 1985, pp. 3-16.
- Bernd Heine: The dative in Ik and Kanuri. In: William Croft et al. (Ed.): Studies in Typology and Diachrony. Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday . Benjamin, Amsterdam a. Philadelphia 1990, pp. 129-149.
- Bernd Heine: Ik dictionary. Köppe, Cologne 1999.
- Marcello Lamberti: Kuliak and Cushitic: a comparative study. Winter, Heidelberg 1988.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Heine (1975/76), see literature