VOCABULARY OF THE SERRERE LANGUAGE. 
(The Serreres inhabit the king;doms of Baol and Barbesin, they 
are the most ancient people of that part of Western Africa, com- 
prised between the Senegal and the Gambia.) 
English. 
English. 
Serrere. 
Arm 
nar. 
Behind 
foot. 
Bed 
guion. 
Breasts 
ten. 
Couscous - 
sat. 
Child 
gai. 
Chest 
area. 
Drink (v) 
ierah. 
Eat 
niami. 
Ears 
nofe. 
Foot 
fate. 
God 
rogue. 
Guinea-fowl 
saoo. 
Hare 
hooilla. 
Hand 
kolle. 
House 
endok. 
Hen 
tieke. 
Iron 
koi'za. 
Knife 
iapile. 
Love (v) 
elferane. 
Legs 
gode. 
Little 
doolooing. 
Aluch 
maioo. 
Mouth 
mootiak. 
Man 
koresse. 
Millet 
kafe. 
Me 
mi. 
Nose 
gnise. 
No 
hin,hin, or barra. 
Rope 
pak. 
River 
calala. 
Sea 
foack. 
Stone 
bine. 
Sun 
set 
Teeth 
gnine. 
Take 
amtioo. 
Tobacco - 
Wood 
Water 
Woman 
Walk 
Whistle (v) 
Yes 
One 
Two 
Three 
Four 
Five 
Six 
Seven 
Eight 
Nine 
Ten 
Eleven 
Serrere. 
poane, 
atiooge. 
fofi. 
tesse. 
gniai. 
iooda. 
io. 
alleng. 
addak. 
tad dak. 
nnaak. 
bedak. 
beta follene. 
beta taddak. 
beta nnaak. 
beta bedak. 
karbagkaie. 
jkarbagkai 
• alleng. 
fon 
mera dikarek. 
V/lmt do you^ , 
call that? |nennahae. 
How do you^ 
sell that ? 5 
How do you do ?diam somme. 
I am vv/ell - bar diam diego. 
Shut the door vegue bedaknet. 
Open the door veti bedaknet. 
It is you who> n^ 
u 1 -J- c voo rile, 
have done it> 
It is not I ra fa mi. 
Go away rati. 
Hold thy tongue tiemmi. 
Give me 
It is cold 
His knife 
tiame-me. 
diogonieme. 
tapile looo, (that 
is to say knife 
to him.) 
THE END. 
VV. SHACKELL, Printer, 
Johnsou's-court, Fleet-street, London. 
