Mbre
Facts
- Language: Mbre
- Alternate names: Bere, Bre, Pre, Pre Pisia, Bɛrɛ, Pere
- Language code: mka
- Language family: Niger-Congo, Volta-Congo, Unclassified Volta-Congo
- Number of speakers: 200
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Mbre language is a endangered language spoken in Ivory Coast. It is spoken in Marabadiassa area, northwest of Bouake and Diabo, Bondosso and Niantibo villages.
Speakers are shifting to the neighboring Manding language Koros, and the language has large numbers of Manding loan words. The interest of Mbre is that it is not aligned with any of the major branches of Niger-Congo.
The Mbre Verb
Verb stems are marked tonally for aspect, either perfective or imperfective. The perfective stem also functions as positive imperative. Either perfective or imperfective are possible in hortatives. In addition to the basic perfective and imperfective forms, additional special forms of the verb occur in the prohibitive, and the progressive. Future, two past-time categories, hortative, and negative (including prohibitive) are marked by separate particles or clause-final enclitics.
Verblist
- be -- to be ripe
- boɣoli -- to wash
- bu -- to throw away
- bye -- to weep
- byɛ ̃ -- to be big
- du -- to pierce
- dε -- to eat
- file -- to fly
- file -- to get up
- file -- to wake up
- fini -- to snore
- foɣoli -- to swell
- frɛ ̃ -- to gather
- fu -- to die
- fulɔ -- to dry
- gbe -- to marry
- gbõ -- to be tired
- je -- to grow
- je -- to sell
- jewu -- to lay (eggs)
- ji -- to kill
- ji -- to wash body
- jo -- to pass night
- jre -- to call
- kale -- to refuse (food)
- kalɔ -- to be quick
- kana -- to push
- kiŋε -- to leave
- kórè -- to be sour
- kũ -- to take
- kɔ -- to drag
- kɔɣɔli -- to vomit
- kε -- to search for
- kεli -- to shell
- la -- to share
- lale -- to sleep
- lato -- to run
- mi -- to go in
- mrã -- to hunt
- mrã -- to send back
- myã -- to insult
- mã -- to laugh
- mɔŋɔ -- to live
- mɛ ̃ -- to swallow
- mεnε -- to braid
- mεnε -- to weave
- nɔ -- to bite
- poli -- to blow
- pre -- to fall
- pò -- to do
- pĩde -- to go to bed
- pɔɣɔlɔ -- to help
- pɔɣɔlɔ -- to rot
- pɛ ̃ -- to go up
- pɛde ̃ -- to forget
- sa -- to cut
- se -- to know s.o.
- se, seni -- to ask for
- so -- to give
- su -- to come from
- sĩ -- to greet
- sĩde -- to go down
- sɔ ̃ -- to build
- sɔ ̃ -- to put in ground
- sɔ ̃ -- to put on
- sɛ ̃ -- to turn over
- sɛ̀ɛ̃ ̀ ̃ -- to buy
- sεni -- to count
- ta -- to finish
- ta -- to throw stones at
- te -- to say, speak
- tiŋa -- to shake
- to -- to sow
- tyeli -- to fire at
- tεnε -- to shout
- we -- to pound
- wi -- to put in
- wile -- to shave
- woli -- to be long
- wɔ -- to dig
- wɔ̀ -- to be somewhere
- ya -- to come
- yaɣa -- to melt
- yεli -- to jump
- yεtrɔ -- to be wet
- ŋmεnε -- to lose
- ŋɔnɔ -- to show
- ɲa -- to beat
- ɲa -- to see
- ɲrĩ -- to look at
- ɲã -- to walk
- ɲĩdɔ -- to hear