Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Review the relatives and home cards. Read the possessive lesson’s complete examples, then ask a family member to explain the term they use for your relationship.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
ɖálʋ̀
EN elder brother
FR frère aîné
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A brother who is older than the person being discussed.
Transcription and translation notes
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.
A sister who is older than the person being discussed.
Transcription and translation notes
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.
A sister of someone’s parent, or an aunt by marriage.
Transcription and translation notes
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.
A brother of someone’s parent, or an uncle by marriage.
Transcription and translation notes
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.
Possessive marking attaches to the noun. The workbook explains that the vowel of the first-person prefix follows the noun’s vowel, and a nasal consonant may appear before certain initial consonants. Compare these attested pairs; the change can affect the beginning of the noun as well.
Say “my”: possessive prefixes
Person
Aspect / context
Kabɩyɛ
Meaning / note
Noun → possessive
pɛlɔ → mɛmbɛlɔ
daughter → my daughter
Noun → possessive
ɖòò → monɖòò
mother → my mother
Noun → possessive
cɔzɔ → mɔnjɔzɔ
grandfather → my grandfather
Noun → possessive
koow → moŋgoow
nephew → my nephew
Transcription and translation notes
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.
