Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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kit&onga/vit&onga                                  ikitonga

Language code: G63
Language name: bena
Translation: bowl for liquids. Bena name really means a milk-bowl, but in the country they now inhabit the Wabena have hardly any places suitable for cattle and few vitonga are ever filled with milk in these days / pot, vessel
Noun class: 7-8
Tonality: H-L
Reference: Culwick 1935:168; Nurse & Philippson 1975
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