Kabɩyɛ LabLANGUAGE · PEOPLE · KNOWLEDGEKabɩyɛ · Togo
Recognise school, teacher, student and alphabet.
Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.
Match the word cards to people or objects in a classroom picture. Compare the noun-plural lesson with the singular labels you are learning.
EN school
FR école
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A place where children or adults go to learn and take lessons.
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. 55 · printed p. 51
EN teacher
FR enseignant ; enseignante
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A person who teaches children or adults, especially in a school.
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. 19 · printed p. 15
EN schoolboy; schoolgirl; student
FR élève ; étudiant ; étudiante
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
A person who attends school or studies.
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.
súkúlibυa
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 19 · printed p. 15
EN alphabet
FR Alphabet
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The set of letters used to write a language.
Kabɩyɛ and French come from the Académie vocabulary. English glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial; project expert review is pending.
Source : Mon livret de vocabulaire français-kabɩyɛ, 2ème édition (juillet 2019)
PDF p. 11 · page imprimée 11
EN students
FR élèves ; étudiants
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
People attending school or studying; a plural form in the source.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 91 · printed p. 87
EN parents
FR parents
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
The parents of children, listed in the source’s education vocabulary.
English follows the workbook’s meaning. French glosses and explanatory definitions are editorial. This attested example still awaits project expert review.
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo
PDF p. 91 · printed p. 87
EN Nouns: learn the singular and plural together
FR Les noms : apprendre singulier et pluriel ensemble
Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review
Kabɩyɛ nouns have several plural patterns. The workbook illustrates -naa, replacement of a final vowel by -aa, and other pairs. Store the plural with each noun rather than applying one ending to every word.
| Person | Aspect / context | Kabɩyɛ | Meaning / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular → plural | cíca → cícanaa | teacher → teachers | |
| Singular → plural | kólú → kólaa | blacksmith → blacksmiths | |
| Singular → plural | wiyaw → awiya | chief → chiefs |
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 source plural of cíca?
cícanaa
Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning
PDF p. 20 · printed / imprimée 16