Abbreviations
| adj. | adjective |
| adv. | adverb |
| class. | botanical or zoological classification |
| conj. | conjunction |
| f. | feminine |
| idéoph. | ideophone |
| interj. | interjection |
| m. | masculine |
| n. | noun, substantive, followed by the singular class and plural class (for example, n.fa/yi is class fa in singular and class yi in plural) |
| nég. | negation, negative |
| num. | numeral |
| num.card. | cardinal numeral |
| num.ord. | ordinal numeral |
| part. | particle |
| part. interr. | interrogatif particle |
| pl. | plural |
| postp. | postposition |
| prép. | preposition |
| pron. | pronoun |
| pron.emph. | emphatic pronoun |
| pron.emph.loc. | emphatic locative pronoun |
| pron.emph.pers. | emphatic personal pronoun |
| pron.pers. | personal pronoun |
| pron.rel. et dém. | relative and demonstrative pronoun |
| pron.rel. et dém.loc. | relative and demonstrative locative pronoun |
| sg. | singular |
| sp. | species |
| v. | verb |
| v.descr. | descriptive verb |
| v.h.p. | irregular verb |
| v.stat. | stative verb |
| var. | variant |
Tones :
| B | low tone (ton bas) |
| H | high tone (ton haut) |
| TB | infra-low tone (ton très bas) |
| TH | super-high tone (ton très haut) |
| BTB | low to infra-low contour tone (ton modulé bas-très bas) |
| HTH | high to super-high contour tone (ton modulé haut-très haut) |
