CHILUBA DICTIONARY PROTO / BLR 3 / BANTU LEXICAL RECONSTRUCTION DATA BASE Tshiluba/chiluba is a member of the Bantu language family spoken by about six million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is one of the national languages along with Lingála, Kiswahili and Kikongo. BLR 3 is database with ca. 10,000 entries that have been proposed as Proto-Bantu reconstructions. Note: (All links if don’t work on direct click, should be copied & pasted for view) Chiluba Dictionary: http://africanlanguages.com/ciluba/#dic Proto Bantu Lexical Reconstruction Data Base: http://www.africamuseum.be/collections/browsecollections/humansciences/blr/results_main Bantu Vocabulary Database: http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/bantu/language.php?id=9 Alpha Dictionary Of Niger Congo Languages: http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Niger,045Congo/ Kirundi Dictionary: http://marshill.org/refugees/files/2010/07/English-Kirundi-Dictionary.pdf YORUBA DICTIONARY Yoruban Dictionary: http://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfTheYorubaLanguage/A_Dictionary_of_the_Yoruba_Language#pagen13/mode/2up Note: (All links if doesn’t work on first click, copy & paste URL) Yoruba is one of the four official languages of Nigeria and is a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages. It is spoken by about 22 million people in southwest Nigeria, Benin, Togo, the UK, Brazil and the USA. YORUBA AND MDW NTR HAS MANY LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES. LOOK HOW THE WORDS OF THE YORUBAN NIGER-CONGO LANGUAGE FAMILIES IS GENETICALY RELATED, ACCORDING TO COMPARITIVE LINGUISTICS. Since Ferdinand de Saussure, the surest way to prove a cultural contact between peoples is to adduce linguistic evidence (Ferdinand de Saussure, 1972, General HISTORY Of Africa). One of the largest inhabitants of Egypt were Yoruboid , and it will be expected that a good percentage of their language will be yoruboid, too. See the list below. EGYPT / YORUBA 1. Wu (rise) // Wu (rise) 2. Ausa (Osiris, father of the gods) // Ausa (father) 3. Ere (Python/ Serpent) // Ere (Python / Serpent) 4. Horise (a great god) // Orise (a great god) 5. Sen (group of worshippers) // Sen ( to worship) 6. Ged (to chant) // Igede (a chant) 7. Ta (sell / offer) // Ta (sell / offer) 8. Sueg (a fool) // Suegbe (a fool) 9. On (living person) // One (living person) 10. Kum (a club) // Kumo (a club) 11. Enru (fear / terrible) // Eru (fear / terrible) 12. Kun / qun (brave man) // Ekun (title of a brave man) 13. Win (to be) // Wino (to be) 14. Odonit (festival) // Odon (festival) 15. Ma or mi (to breath) // Mi. (to breathe) 16. Tebu (a town) // Tebu (a town) 17. Adumu (a water god) // Adumu (a water god) 18. Khu (to kill) // Ku (die) 19. Rekha (knowledge) // Larikha (knowledge) 20. Hika (evil) // Ika (evil) 21. Mhebi (humble) // Mebi (humble to one’s family) 22. Sata (perfect) // Santan (perfect) 23. Unas (lake of fire) // Una (fire) 24. Tan (complete) // Tan (complete) 25. Beru (force of emotion) // Beru (fear) 26. Em (smell) // Emi (smell) 27. Pa (open) // Pa (break open) 28. Bi (to become) // Bi (to give birth, to become) 29. Hepi (a water god) // Ipi (a water god) EGYPT / YORUBA (List Continued) 30. Sami (a water god) // Sami (a water god) 31. Osiri (a water god) // Oshiri (a water god) 32. Heqet – Re (frog deity) // Ekere (the frog) 33. Feh (to go away) // Feh (to blow away) 34. Kot (build) // Ko (build) 35. Kot (boat) // Oko (boat) 36. Omi (water) // Omi (water) 37. Ra (time) // Ira (time) 38. Oni (title of Osiris) // Oni (title of the king of Ife) 39. Budo (dwelling place) // Budo (dwelling place) 40. Dudu (black image of Osiris) // Dudu (black person) 41. Un (living person) // Una (living person) 42. Ra (possess) // Ra (possess/buy) 43. Beka (pray/confess) // Be or ka (to pray or confess) 44. Po (many) // Po (many/cheap) 45. Horus (head) middle Egyptian // Oruwo (head) Ijebu 46. Min (a god) // Emin (spirit) 47. Ash (invocation) // Ashe (invocation) 48. Aru (mouth) // Arun (mouth ) Ilaje 49. Do (river) // Odo (river) 50. Do (settlement) // Udo (settlement) 51. Shekiri (water god) // Shekiri (a water god) 52. Bu (a place) // Bu (a place) 53. Khepara (beetle) // Akpakara (beetle) 54. No (a water god) // Eno (a water god) 55. Ra-Shu (light after darkness) // Uran-shu (the light of the moon 56. Run-ka (spirit name) // Oruko (name) 57. Deb/dib (to pierce) // Dibi (to pierce) 58. Maat (goddess of justice) // Mate (goddess of justice) 59. Aru (rise) // Ru (rise up) 60. Fa (carry) // Fa (pull) 61. Kaf (pluck) // Ka (pluck) 62. Bu bi (evil place) // Bubi (evil place) 63. In- n (negation) // In-n (negation) 64. Iset (a water god) // Ise (a water god) 65. Shabu (watcher) // Ashonbo (watcher) 66. Semati (door keeper) // Sema (lock/shut the door) 67. Khenti amenti (big words of Osiris) // Yenti – yenti (big, very big) 68. Ma (to know) // Ma (to know) 69. Bebi (a son of osiris) // Ube (a god) 70. Tchatcha chief (they examined the death to see if they tricked) // Tsatsa (a game of tricks, gambling ) 71. Ren (animal foot) // Ren (to walk) 72. Ka (rest) // Ka (rest/tired) 73. Mu (water) // Mu (drink water) EGYPT / YORUBA (List Continued) 74. Abi (against) // Ubi (against / impediment) 75. Reti (to beseech) // Retin (to listen) 76. Hir (praise) // Yiri (praise) 77. Ta (spread out) // Ta (spread out) 78. Kurud (round) // Kurudu (round) 79. Ak (male) // Ako (male) 80. Se (to create) // Se (to create) 81. Hoo (rejoice) // Yo (rejoice) 82. Kamwr (black) // Kuru (extremely black) 83. Omitjener (deep water) // Omijen (deep water) 84. Nen (the primeval water mother) // Nene (mother) 85. Ta (land) // Ita (land junction) 86. Horiwo (head) // Oriwo (head) 87. Ro (talk) // Ro (to think) 88. Kurubu (round) // Kurubu (deep and round) 89. Penka (divide) // Kpen (divide) 90. Ma-su (to mould) // Ma or su (to mould) 91. Osa (time) // Osa (time) 92. Osa (tide) // Osa ( tide) 93. Fare (wrap) // Fari (wrap) 94. Kom (complete) // Kon (complete) 95. Edjo (cobra) // Edjo (cobra) 96. Didi (red fruit) // Diden (red) 97. Ba (soul) // Oba (king) soul of a people 98. Ke (hill) // Oke (hill) 99. Anubis (evil deity) // Onubi (evil person) 100. Kan (one: Middle Egyptian) // Okan (one) 101. Nam (water god) // Inama (water god) Yoruban Dictionary: http://words.fienipa.com/ Yoruban Dictionary: http://www.yorubadictionary.com/ The Yoruban Speaking Peoples: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yor/index.htm Yoruban Legends: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/index.htm Yoruba and the Egyptian connection: http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgibin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/2139 AKAN DICTIONARY The Akan languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo languages. There are about 7 million Akan speakers in eastern Ivory Coast, south-central Ghana, and central Togo. There are numerous dialects of Akan, including Twi, Fante, Bono, Wasa, Nzema, Baule and Anyi, with a high level of mutual intelligibility between them. AKAN ADINKRA SYMBOLS (above image) ONLINE AKAN DICTIONARY: http://words.fienipa.com./all/ak AKAN DICTIONARY: Akan English Dictionary (Word Document) ADINKRA SYMBOL INDEX: http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra_index.htm AKAN DICTIONARY: http://www.twi.bb/ ISIZULU/ZULU DICTIONARY Zulu is one of the official languages of South Africa & is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages. It is spoken by about 9 million people mainly in Zululand and northern Natal in South Africa and also in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Swaziland. ISIZULU/ZULU DICTIONARY: http://en.glosbe.com/en/zu ISIZULU DICTIONARY: http://archive.org/details/zuluenglishdicti00brya RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF AMAZULU: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/rsa/index.htm LEXI LOGOS ZULU DICTIONARY: http://www.lexilogos.com/english/zulu_dictionary.htm KALENJIN DICTIONARY The Kalenjin or Nandi languages are a group of closely related Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. KALENJIN DICTIONARY: http://africanlanguages.com/kalenjin/ IGBO DICTIONARY DICTIONARY OF ONICHA IGBO: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/VN/Igboid/IGBO%20Dictionary.pdf POCKET DICTIONARY OF IGBO: http://books.google.com/books?id=8JDg94vBNLcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=igbo+dictionary IGBO LANGUAGE LESSONS: http://ilc.igbonet.com/ LEARN IGBO: http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/html/learn_igbo.html IGBO DICTIONARY: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/igbo/Acholonu%20-%20Ogam%20Dictionary.pdf WOLOF/WOLLOF DICTIONARY Wolof is a member of the Senegambian branch of the Niger-Congo language family with about 7 million speakers in Senegal, France, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania. ,( ِﺳﻨِﯖَ ْﺎﻝ / Wolof is one of the six national languages of Senegal (Senegaal along with Serer, Mandinka, Pulaar, Diola and Soninke. WOLOF/WOLLOF DICTIONARY : http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/ftp/wollof.pdf WOLOF: http://sys.uvigo.es/ldm/uploads/Wolof/ka_wolof.pdf EXTENSIVE WOLOF GRAMMAR MANUAL: http://www.africanculture.dk/gambia/ftp/wollof.pdf THIS IS SOME MDW NTR & WOLOF LINGUISTIC CONNECTION SPEARHEADED BY DR.CHIEKH ANTE DIOP by Cheikh Anta Diop , Linguistic Affinity Walaf, 62 a Senegalese language spoken in the extreme west of Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, is perhaps as close to ancient Egyptian as Coptic. An exhaustive study of this question has recently been carried out. 63 In this chapter enough is presented to show that the kinship between ancient Egyptian and the languages of Africa is not hypothetical but a demonstrable fact which it is impossible for modern scholarship to thrust aside. As we shall see, the kinship is genealogical in nature. EGYPTIAN COPTIC WALAF =kef=to grasp, (Saidique