Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Study the office and municipality cards. Practise the complete greeting and “Excuse me” phrase before naming the place on a separate word card.
Source reference · awaiting expert review
Ŋlɩ̀wá lɛ́?
EN Good morning
FR Bonjour (le matin)
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A morning greeting. The workbook gives its use as 6 a.m.–11 a.m.
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.
A place where administrative or professional work is done.
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.
What is your name?. Ask someone’s name when introducing yourselves.
Transcription and translation notes
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert 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.
Ask a yes-or-no question
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.
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.
Editorial exercises · awaiting review
Which particle ends the question about sleeping well?
