Distinguish cousins, grandchildren, spouses and younger siblings in the source.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Use an imaginary family tree without recording personal information. Place each complete source word beside the relationship it names, then check the distinctions in the French or English meanings.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
ɖɛ́dʋ̀
EN cousin
FR cousin ; cousine
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
cousin
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Family words and their plurals
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
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.
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.
