Yansi (Eyansi)

Yansi is a Bantu language with about 100,000 speakers in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in Bandundu (formerly Banningville or Banningstad), the capital city of Kwilu Province, which is part of former Bandundu Province.

Yansi is also known as Yans, Yanzi, Eyansi, Eyáns, Kiyansi or Iyansi. Yansi speakers call their language Eyansi or Iyansi and themselves Bayanzi. Dialects include Mbiem (West Yansi), East Yans, Yeei, Tsong, Mpur and Tsambaan.

A way to write Yansi with the Latin alphabet was created in 1985, and there is a translation of New Testament of the Bible in Yansi.

Yansi alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Yansi (Excel)
Details of Yansi alphabet and pronunciation provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF), and Michael Peter Füstumum

Sample texts

E ma seung na’aba ilum’a bua, nka-sua ilum’a sone’e maseung e maseung.
The maseung fruits fall today, tomorrow they are peeled, maseung, maseung

Litama a nsey udué mukul’e.
/ Ngie n’andiar laa n’asakian.
There is a gazelle track on the stone.
When you walk there, be careful.

Source: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/86522

Sample text

Nde waa kàtɛn a ba naa: « Mpal làyamà bɛ, làtɛn abà: "Taa! Wɛy ikɔb angye ikäl kyà in'kyɛɛl, wɛy imwol angye iyi.
Ipɛ ŋàbà isaa abi byà ilä a ilä.
Idwääl nkul asànaa ifàdwääl bi nkul akà baar bàfikyer ube. Twon an'pà mbwo naa bi ibilà u ndɛb." »

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/3929/LUK.11.YNS

Translation

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
The Lord's Prayer - Luke 11: 2-4

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV

Sample videos in Yansi

Links

Information about Yansi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yansi_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yansi_(langue)
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/yansi.html
http://www.language-archives.org/language/yns
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yans1239

Bantu languages

Aka, Bafaw-Balong, Bangi, Basaa, Bemba, Bembe, Bena, Benga, Bhaca, Bube, Bukusu, Bulu, Central Teke, Chichewa, Chokwe, Chuwabu, Comorian, Dciriku, Digo, Duala, Eton, Ewondo, Fang, Ganda/Luganda, Gogo, Gusii, Gwere, Haya, Hehe, Herero, Ibinda, Ikizu, Ikoma, Jita, Kabwa, Kako, Kamba, Kiga, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kisi, Kogo, Komo, Kongo, Konjo, Koti, Kukuya, Kunda, Kuria, Kwambi, Lambya, Lingala, Loma, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luchazi, Lunda, Luvale, Luyana, Makaa, Makonde, Makhuwa, Mandekan, Maore, Masaaba, Mbama, Mbere, Mbukushu, Mbunda, Mbuun, Mende, Mongo, Mpiemo, Mushungulu, Mwani, Nambya, Nande, Ngoni, Nkore, North Teke, Northern Ndebele (South Africa), Northern Ndebele (Zimbabwe), Northern Sotho, Nyamwezi, Nyakyusa, Nyemba, Nyole, Nyoro, Nyungwe, Nzadi, Oroko, OshiWambo, Pagibete, Punu, Ronga, Safwa, Sena, Sengele, Shona, Soga, Songe, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Sukuma, Swahili, Swati, Tanga, Tembo, Tonga, Tooro, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswa, Tswana, Tumbuka, Umbundu, Venda, Vili, Vwanji, Xhosa, Yakam, Yansi, Yao, Yasa, Yeyi, Zigula, Zinza, Zulu

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 07.04.25. Last modified: 16.04.25

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