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MANDINGO 
Where are you going? 
Where is it ? 
White, 
White, (complexion). 
White man. 
Wind, 
Woman, 
Wood, 
Wooden dish or bowl, 
Writing, 
VOCABULARY. 
Taj a menez ? 
Menez? 
Goe (koui). 
Goe. 
Forto (or nosaro Arabic), 
Foignan (feunnio). 
Mouso (mousa). 
Lo-ho or lojo"^. 
G oing, (the i pronounced hard 
and through the nose.} 
Siberi. 
Y. 
Yams, 
Year, 
Yes, 
Yesterday, 
Yesterday (day before) 
You or thou. 
Cou. 
San. 
Naime, (aoua, Arabic), 
Counou (kouna). 
Counaucini. 
Ilai, (eeta, ee)t. 
SHORT PHRASES IN MANDINGO. 
Is the country of the Mandin- Mandingua dougou a ka- 
goes far off ? diau ? 
It is not far off. Amadiau. 
* The J is used here, and in all the words that should have a strong 
guttural pronunciation ; it is in the Spanish j, and the Arabic 
. , kha. 
t Inia, in Arabic, thou. 
