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Acholi Mathematics

year

The true way of calling a year in Acholi is Onyoni. Mwoka is adapted from kiswahili.

EnglishAcholi
This yearOnyoni
It is born this yearonyualo onyoni
Next yearOnyoni ma bino
Last yearOnyoni ma okato
Ten yearOnyoni apar
Hundred yearonyoni mia acel
thousand yearsonyoni alip acel

 

EnglishAcholi
DecadesOnyoni apar
century onyoni mia acel
Millennia onyoni alip acel
light yearonyoni mac

Doing things

EnglishAcholi
YearlyOnyoni ndong Onyoni
New yearOnyeni maguen
end of yearonyoni ogik