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tshiluba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tshilu-ba
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Bantu language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Inflected Forms

Ciluba (alternative)

Phrases

Wiktionary’s coverage of Luba-Kasai terms lua ⁠

Frequently Paired Words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Luba-Kasai terms lua ⁠

Synonyms

Luba-Kasai Luba-Lulua luba tshiluba language luba language

Questions

What does tshiluba mean?
A Bantu language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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