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Tree, rain, money: the words of everyday life.

A handful of words collected by the Bamum linguist Solange Pawou Molu in the village of Njiketnkié, 7 km from Foumban.

They all contain the vowel ɯ — a good chance to practise it.

📖 These words are given in linguistic notation (with tones marked). In everyday writing, tones are not always written.

format_list_bulletedVocabulary in this lesson

  • tɯ́tɯ́
    tree
  • m͡bɯ̀ɯ̀
    rain
  • m͡bɯ́ɯ́m
    money
  • rɯ̀ɯ̀
    chair
  • n͡dɯ̀ɯ̀
    necklace
  • n͡ʒɯ́
    bell
  • sɯ́p
    sauce
  • vɯ́p
    a kind of vegetable
  • vɯ́ɯ́t
    deep hole
  • jɯ́m
    thing
  • lɯ̀m
    dry season, age
  • ndɯ̀t
    limit, boundary
  • kɯ́
    strength
  • tɯ́m
    message

info_outline Source : Pawou Molu (2018)