Mongo
ISO 639-3: lol
Major regional language of central Congo Basin
Language Details
| Family Lineage | Niger-Congo › Atlantic-Congo › Volta-Congo › Benue-Congo › Bantoid › Southern Bantoid › Bantu › Central Bantu |
| Countries | DR Congo |
| Approximate Speakers | ~5,000,000 |
| Notes | Covers a broad dialect continuum |
Hebrew Comparisons
| Word | Meaning | Hebrew Word | Transliteration | Hebrew Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ngambo | side, direction | אֲגַם | agam | from an unused root (meaning to collect as water); a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds; pond, pool, standing (water). |
| ngai | I, me | אֲנִי | ani | lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who. |
| duma | quiet, calm | דָּהַם | dâham | a primitive root (compare דּוּחַ); to be dumb, i.e. (figuratively) dumbfounded; astonished. |
| sama | sky | שָׁמַיִם | shâmayim | dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve); air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s). |