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GOD is great; first and foremost!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (MENU):
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Introduction
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Pronunciation Parameters
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Word Classes
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Vocabulary (A to Z)
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Numbers
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The LORD's Prayer
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Books in the Holy Bible
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The 10 Commandments
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Lugbara Anthem
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Colours
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The Verb "Be"
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Relationships (The Clan)
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Days of the Week
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Calendar
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Lugbara Proverbs
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Riddles
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Idioms
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Lost in Translation (Lugbara AI)
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Introduction:
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This translation tool was created painstakingly from scratch (zero) with gritty nerves on the 3rd Agofe's 90th birthday afternoon (Saturday 26th November 2016) after a South Sudanese Acholi-Madi in Tennessee, USA (named Suzy Abdelfarag [aka Mamur, Akema] who spoke fluent Arabic) asked me via Facebook to teach her Luganda (so that she could understand her favourite Ugandan musicians eg Jackie Chandiru and Mowzey Radio). Dismissively, she wanted more than just the basic words I started the lessons with, but while checking out a Luganda Dictionary at www.archive.org, I literally snapped without apologies because of what I had noticed about self-learning versus waiting for teachers to teach during my school career. Reinforced every year, Aiko's Lugbara Dictionary is where the Old and New meet (like Synthetic Imagination). It's a Lugbara Language Museum for historical, scientific and cultural research: Use Ctrl + F (key combination) or add this one-page electronic dictionary as a file to any AI chatbot to swiftly find any words you want! There is no English to Lugbara section, but you can reverse-translate using an electronic Search tool when you want to find a Lugbara translation for the English word you already know. I'm only human and apologise in advance for any mistakes: I've cleaned thousands of errors by the way especially before Volume 10 (rationalised a lot spiritually and while proofreading spellings). I was even tempted to delete all the data, but resilience convinced me to keep editing; therefore corrections and suggestions are always welcome through WhatsApp: +256-781-345712 or Email: [email protected]! I ask the Holy Spirit to guide me in the name of JESUS (like Tower of Babel language multiplication by YHWH in Genesis 11 and Galileans filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost amazingly speaking other languages in Acts 2:1-13)! Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that: JESUS Christ is Lord [YESU Kurisito ni Opi] (Philippians 2:10-11)!
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Pronunciation Parameters:
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In Lugbara phonology, every Lugbara word ends with one of the five vowels eg nyanya = tomato; mucele = rice; karoti = carrot; ovakedo = avocado; osu = bean. Letters Q [Kaya] and X [Ekasa, Alamakanda in Aringa dialect] are not used (meaning only 24 on a keyboard can do), but four unique ones with an apostrophe are added: 'B, 'D, 'W and 'Y (which all sound like putting H after them though personal names omit the apostrophe). The 28 letters in the Simplified Lugbara Alphabet sound like this: Ah, Ba, Bha, Cha, Da, Dha, Eh, Fa, Ga, Ha, Ii (as in Israel), Ja, Ka, La, Ma, Na, Oh, Pa, Ra, Sa, Ta, Uw (as in soUnd), Va, Wa, Wha, Ya, Yha, Za. One of the sweetest things about Lugbara is that words are pronounced the way they are written. Since nursery in Jinja (Busoga), I was confusingly taught to recite English vowels separately in a different acoustic compared to the vowels in the ABC to Z(ed) rhyme, but later realised that the former sequence was exactly how Lugbara vowels sound. Consonant clusters (with silent letter denoted by rounded brackets) in Lugbara are: (D)J, DR, (G)B, HW, (K)P, MB, M(G)B, MV, ND, NDR, NG, NY, NZ and TR while diphthong (vowel) clusters and other noteworthy phonetics include the following:
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aa as in rat, for example leta-a
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c as in church, for example Candiru (though can also be spelt Chandiru)
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dj (letter D is silent) as in jilt, for example odji (pronounced oji)
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ee (preferably single E instead of a long vowel) as in emblem, for example andree (also andre)
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gb (letter G is silent) as in bend, for example Lugbara (pronounced Lubara)
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ii as in import, for example 'di-i (also sometimes written as 'di'i with a glottal stop though archaic); letter I doesn't need to be repeated when noun is not being emphasized eg zii can just be zi, the second I stands for "the one (and only)"
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kp (letter K is silent) as in pen, for example okpo (pronounced opo)
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mv (letter M becomes N) as in conversation, for example omve (pronounced onve)
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oa as in soar, for example Boroa
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oo (preferably single O) as in hold, for example ocoo (also oco); not oo as in food
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uu (preferably single U) as in chew, for example cuu (pronounced chu)
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z (letter Z becomes J after N) as in jean, for example onzi (pronounced onji). Otherwise, most times remains z as in zebra, for example ozu and when the first letter of a word, for example zukulu.
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Simplified Lugbara (Foundational 2-letter Words below including exactly 25 diphthong clusters have more than 140 [which is 28 alphabet letters multiplied by 5 vowels at the end] possible English meanings):
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aa ae ai ao au
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ba be bi bo bu// 'ba 'be 'bi 'bo 'bu
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ca ce ci co cu
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da de di do du// 'da 'de 'di 'do 'du
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ea ee ei eo eu
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fa fe fi fo fu
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ga ge gi go gu
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ha he hi ho hu
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ia ie ii io iu
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ja je ji jo ju
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ka ke ki ko ku
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la le li lo lu
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ma me mi mo mu
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na ne ni no nu
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oa oe oi oo ou
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pa pe pi po pu
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ra re ri ro ru
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sa se si so su
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ta te ti to tu
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ua ue ui uo uu
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va ve vi vo vu
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wa we wi wo wu// 'wa 'we 'wi 'wo 'wu
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ya ye yi yo yu// 'ya 'ye 'yi 'yo 'yu
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za ze zi zo zu
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Extra 70 Words from 14 Consonant Clusters (Some words may have alternatives):
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dja dje dji djo dju
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