Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Recognise close family and two generations.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Match the family cards to a simple family tree using fictional names or your own labels. Compare printed forms without assuming every family uses one variant.
EN family
FR famille
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
People related to one another, such as parents, children and siblings.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 104 · printed p. 100
EN father
FR père
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A male parent.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 25 · printed p. 21
EN mother
FR mère
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A female parent.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 25 · printed p. 21
EN child
FR enfant
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A young person; a son or daughter.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
The workbook’s legacy font encoding has been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, with printed tones retained. The original extracted text is preserved. This is not a modernization of the source orthography.
pυa
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 25 · printed p. 21
EN grandfather
FR grand-père
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The father of someone’s mother or father.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 25 · printed p. 21
EN grandmother
FR grand-mère
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The mother of someone’s mother or father.
The English meaning comes from the Peace Corps workbook. The French gloss is an editorial translation. Printed spellings and tones are retained; font-encoding repairs are disclosed separately. Project expert review is pending.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 25 · printed p. 21
EN Family words and their plurals
FR Les mots de la famille au pluriel
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Family terms also show several plural patterns. Compare the printed pairs instead of assuming that every family word takes -naa. Tone marks are kept where the workbook prints them.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular → plural | wálʋ̀ → wálaa | husband → husbands | |
| Singular → plural | hálʋ̀ → hálaa | wife / woman → wives / women | |
| Singular → plural | pɛlɔ → pɛlaa | daughter → daughters | |
| Singular → plural | pʋa → piya | child → children |
Forms were compared with the PDF. Legacy font characters are represented with the corresponding Latin Kabɩyɛ letters (ɩ, ɛ, ʋ, ɖ, ŋ), retaining printed tone marks.
What is the plural of pʋa in this source?
piya
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 29 · printed / imprimée 25