Nubi

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Nubi
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: kcn
  • Language family:
  • Number of speakers:
  • Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
  • Script:

More information:

    The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi) is a Sudanese Arabic-based Creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo and Kenya around Kibera by the descendants of Emin Pasha's Sudanese soldiers, settled there by the British. It was spoken by about 15,000 people in Uganda in 1991 (according to the census), and an estimated 10,000 in Kenya; another source estimates about 50,000 speakers as of 2001. 90% of the lexicon derives from Arabic, but the grammar has been massively simplified, as has the sound system.

    Sample verb: ákulú

    Affirmative tenses

    Aoristákulú
    Futureb-ákulú
    Perfectkàlás ákulú
    Pluperfectkáàn ákulú
    Progressivegí ákulú
    Future progressivebì gí ákulú
    Pluperfect progressivekáàn gí ákulú
    Hypothetical progressivekáàn b-ákulú

    Negative tenses

    Aoristmá ákulú; ákulú má
    Futuremá b-ákulú
    Perfectkàlás ákulú má
    Pluperfectkáàn !má ákulú
    Progressivemá !gí ákulú
    Future progressivemá bì gí ákulú
    Pluperfect progressivekáàn !má gí ákulú
    Hypothetical progressivekáàn !má b-ákulú