Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Greet, recognise a family occasion and offer congratulations.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Choose a greeting and the source question about the people over there. Match a family-occasion card to its meaning, practise the congratulations phrase and finish with the source leave-taking.
EN Good evening
FR Bonsoir
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Good evening
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. 9 · printed p. 5
EN What about the people over there?
FR Comment vont les gens là-bas ?
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
What about the people over there?
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. 96 · printed p. 92
EN Say it again
FR Dites-le encore
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Say it again
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.
Tasɩ yɔdυ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 95 · printed p. 91
EN Congratulations
FR Félicitations
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Congratulations. Congratulate one person on a happy event.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
Ñánà ñυw leleŋ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 81 · printed p. 77
EN wedding ceremony
FR cérémonie de mariage
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A ceremony celebrating a marriage; the source lists two expressions.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
nisiɖɔkυ / halυkpɔyɛ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 50 · printed p. 46
EN naming ceremony
FR cérémonie d’attribution du nom
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A ceremony in which a child is given a name.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Legacy PDF font codes have been converted to visually matching Latin Kabɩyɛ letters, preserving printed tones and the original extracted text. This does not modernize the source orthography.
pυa lɩzὺὺ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 50 · printed p. 46
EN See you soon
FR À bientôt
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
See you soon
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.
Pὶlábá tásὶ
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 9 · printed p. 5
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The Academy’s report of its July 2024 session, published in December, recommends marking high tone only; an unmarked syllable is read with low tone. Our examples retain each publication’s notation. Always compare the form with its cited page.
Source : Académie Kabiyè — session extraordinaire de juillet 2024
30 December 2024 · orthography and grammar section
EN Ask a yes-or-no question
FR Poser une question oui/non
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
In the greeting examples, the final particle na marks a yes-or-no question. The workbook uses lɛ with lɩwʋ “to come out”. Learn these complete examples and their situations; question words and particles should not be added mechanically to every sentence.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| na | Ŋɖówá cámɩ̀yɛ̀ na? | Did you sleep well? | |
| lɛ | Ŋlɩ̀wá lɛ́? | Did you come out from the room well? Used as a morning greeting. |
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.
Which particle ends the question about sleeping well?
na
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 13 · printed / imprimée 9