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Kabɩyɛ · Togo

Arrive and greet

Recognise a welcome and the place you are visiting.

Activities are teaching adaptations. Source transcriptions remain pending expert review; each card states its source and status.

Choose a greeting and a welcome card. Match village, town and visitor vocabulary to a situation you might encounter.

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.

Original extracted text

Ŋlὶwá lέ?

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo

PDF p. 9 · printed p. 5

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Kafaɖa

EN Excuse me, please

FR Excusez-moi, s’il vous plaît

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Excuse me, please

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.

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo

PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

Kabɩtɛ

EN Welcome

FR Bienvenue

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

Welcome

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.

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Peace Corps Togo

PDF p. 96 · printed p. 92

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

haɖaa, filanzɩ

EN village

FR Village

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

A small community or settlement outside a town or city.

Transcription de la source, contrôlée visuellement sur le PDF. Validation linguistique par les experts du projet à venir.

Transcription and translation notes

English gloss and explanation are editorial translations of the French source label, not a separate expert validation of the Kabɩyɛ form.

Source : Mon livret de vocabulaire français-kabɩyɛ, 2ème édition (juillet 2019)

PDF p. 21 · page imprimée 21

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

ɖoŋgiye, tɛtʋ

EN town; city

FR Ville

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

An urban settlement; the source lists two Kabɩyɛ equivalents.

Transcription de la source, contrôlée visuellement sur le PDF. Validation linguistique par les experts du projet à venir.

Transcription and translation notes

English gloss and explanation are editorial translations of the French source label, not a separate expert validation of the Kabɩyɛ form.

Source : Mon livret de vocabulaire français-kabɩyɛ, 2ème édition (juillet 2019)

PDF p. 21 · page imprimée 21

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Source reference · awaiting expert review

ɛsɩyɛegbenawoɖu

EN tourist

FR Touriste

Editorial gloss and explanation · awaiting review

A person travelling to visit places for pleasure.

Transcription and translation notes

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. 20 · page imprimée 20

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Related grammar

Source reference · awaiting expert review

Ask a yes-or-no question

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.

Ask a yes-or-no question
PersonAspect / contextKabɩyɛMeaning / note
naŊɖówá cámɩ̀yɛ̀ na?Did you sleep well?
lɛŊlɩ̀wá 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?

Show answer

na

Source : Kabiye O.P.L. Workbook — Oral Proficiency Learning

PDF p. 13 · printed / imprimée 9

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