Lingala and Kikuyu/Lexical Selection

This page details the lexical selection process for machine translation between Lingala and Kikuyu for one-to-many mappings.

lin → kik

• (lin) kokíma → (kik) hanyũk (to run); ũr (to run away)
• (lin) kofánda → (kik) ikar (to sit); tũũr (to live (as in reside))
• (lin) kobánza → (kik) ĩcir (to think); ririkan (to remember)
• (lin) mabele → (kik) thanga (sand); ria (milk)

kik → lin

• (kik) igu → (lin) kotosa (to obey); koyoka (to hear)
• (kik) rut → (lin) koyekola (to learn); kokukula (to remove)
• (kik) ria → (lin) mabele (milk); etimá (pond)