- Lamnso
Lamnso (also written Lamnso') is the language of the
Nso people ofCameroon .It is a Bantu language with ten majornoun class es. [http://faculty.washington.edu/lauramcg/papers/Lamnso.pdf]Phrases
* Beri wo. Thank you.(Deutsch: Danke)
* A saka? What news? (Greeting).(Deutsch: Wie Gehts?)
* Saka yo dzə. No news (Reply) OR M bo sa. I am fine (Deutsch: Gut)
* Nyuy servi wo. God bless you (Greeting).(Deutsch: Gott segne dich)
* Fo mo. Give me.(Deutsch: Gib mir)
* A du fe? Where are you going?(Deutsch: Wo gehen Sie hin?)
* Yir yee dzə la? What is your name?(Deutsch: Wie heißen Sie?)
* Yir yem dzə Luckong. My name is Luckong(Deutsch: Meine Name ist Luckong)
* A dzə wan la? Whose child are you? (Deutsch: Zu welchen Eltern gehören Sie?)
* M dzə wan Emma. I am Emma's child (Deutsch: Ich bin das Kind von Emma)
* Fon Nso dze la? Who is the Traditional ruler of Nso? (Deutsch: Wie heißt der Nso Oberhaupt?)Bibliography
* McGarrity, Laura and Botne, Robert (2001). [http://faculty.washington.edu/lauramcg/papers/Lamnso.pdf "Between Agreement and Case Marking in Lamnso"] . IUWPL 3: Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamnso' to Sesotho (2001), edited by Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, pp. 53-70. Bloomington, IN: Noun classes and categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983". Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lns SIL Language entry.]
* [http://csufresno.edu/odin/igt_urls.php?lang=NSO ODIN Language entry.]
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