Mangbutu

Nilo-Saharan? > Central Sudanic > Eastern > Mangbetu-Asoa > Mangbetu

Mangbutu is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the northeast of D.R. Congo. It has around 600,000 speakers, a rich phonemic inventory, and no script.

Here are the numbers from zero to ten translated in Mangbutu:

Number Romanisation IPA
0 //
1 /eɗí/
2 /edrwe/
3 /edrína/
4 /edríto/
5 /edrímbo/
6 /edrímbo émbá eɗí/
7 /edrímbo émbá edrwe/
8 /edrímbo émbá edrina/
9 /edrímbo émbá edrito/
10 /mene/

Source: "Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central, Zaïre)" by Moiso Bokula and Agozia-Kario Irumu via Wiktionary

Back to Homepage