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Language: Venen Taute (Unmet)

Source/Author:  Aviva Shimelman 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:nmb  Glottocode: bign1238 
Notes:  Transcription -- broad -- done with standard IPA with the exception that [ᴅ] was represented as "dʳ". 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Aviva Shimelman  Checked By: Aviva Shimelman 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:North and Central Vanuatu:Malekula Interior:Malekula Central 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
27 nose      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
47 to yawn      
53 person/human being      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
71 to stab, pierce      
82 dull, blunt      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
104 fat/grease      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
132 fog      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
151 green      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
177 this      
178 that      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
210 One Thousand word info      
16 intestines xɛn-      
37 to eat -timax      
50 to dream -liliɣren      
146 ash vɛrnnaap      
175 above aia      
176 below xilaɣa      
185 we word info naknd uⁿdʳani we dl incl    
7 to come -ma   1  
11 dust neɛv   1  
19 shoulder vən   1  
23 blood na-ⁿde   1  
44 to hear -rni   1  
45 eye mata-   1  
48 to sleep -matr   1  
62 thatch/roof ne-ɛt   1  
75 to die, be dead -n̼a   1  
78 to cut, hack word info -tri   1  
79 stick/wood na-i   1  
80 to split word info -tərpri   1  
90 to dig -xəli   1  
91 to buy -wuli   1  
97 bird manəx   1  
99 feather nil-n   1  
108 louse word info naɣt   1  
109 mosquito namax   1  
110 spider ni-lo   1  
113 branch word info ranɛ (nai)   1  
114 leaf raun   1  
120 stone na-vɛt   1  
121 sand n-un   1  
124 sea na-ta   1  
129 moon na-al   1  
133 rain n-u   1  
147 black -mɪt   1  
148 white -tfa   1  
165 bad, evil -stu   1  
198 Two word info i-ru   1  
199 Three word info i-tl   1  
201 Five word info i-lɪm   1  
183 thou nakm   1, 17, 18, 25  
184 he/she ɣin   1, 29  
43 ear ⁿdʳɪlna-   1, 40  
149 red -miɛl   1, 55  
188 what? word info vata   1, 57, 58  
1 hand lɪma-   1, 64  
98 egg naxaⁿdʳ-n   1, 66  
187 they xir they 1, 69  
136 wind na-lɛn   1, 77  
186 you kami you pl 1, 13  
182 I kana   1, 21, 22  
31 tooth lu-   1, 35  
40 to drink -min   1, 49  
73 to steal -vənaɣi   1, 58  
2 left mir   1, 59  
200 Four word info i-va   1, 65  
160 painful, sick -mat   1, 98  
5 to walk -vɛl   10  
84 to plant -lawi   10  
103 meat/flesh niɣ-n   10  
195 no, not i-ɣe   10  
95 to fall word info -irɪs   101  
164 good -pas   108  
119 earth/soil na-ⁿdep   11  
140 dry word info -mama   11  
204 Eight word info satl   11, 7  
51 to sit -lak   110  
152 small -supa   112  
77 to scratch word info -xarxari   12  
106 snake nɪ-mat   12  
130 star mʷəsi   13  
46 to see -le   14  
81 sharp -ɣan   14  
142 heavy -ⁿdv   14  
36 to spit -tupi   15  
70 to shoot word info -lue   15  
60 father tate   19  
143 fire na-ap   19  
115 root warn   2  
122 water word info na-we   2  
52 to stand -ptir   2, 59  
145 smoke word info iɛnnaap   2, 77  
202 Six word info lɪmse   20  
134 thunder na-vl   23  
12 skin ni-lepa-   23, 88  
55 woman/female tavɛt   24  
22 to fear nɛⁿdʳn   25  
65 rope na-xao   25  
197 One word info isɪt   25  
162 old word info -tarɛp   27, 115  
96 dog lipax   29  
18 breast nunu   3  
181 where? word info ipi   3, 59  
64 to say -vəri   30  
128 sky pɛkmarɛn   30, 31  
26 hair word info nil-   31  
101 to fly -tɛtv   32  
4 leg/foot tl-   34  
141 wet -wir   35, 47  
63 name naxa-   37  
126 lake na-lɪp   37  
171 to hide word info -tutuani   37, 39  
166 correct, true -vərəndaui   37, 73  
100 wing ni-lxa-ɛn   38, 69, 71  
189 who? word info hanak   41  
167 night liɣɛt   42  
29 to sniff, smell -min   42?  
93 to pound, beat word info -rpi   43  
3 right mɛlɪⁿdao   44  
25 neck natəv-   45  
54 man/male ⁿdui   45  
102 rat lɪpo   45  
6 road/path na-vanɛl   46  
209 One Hundred word info i-nɛɬnalivank   46  
33 to laugh -vutma   47  
172 to climb word info -xapr   47  
163 new -mⁿdax   48  
14 belly vat-   5  
205 Nine word info savɛt   5  
206 Ten word info snaɬ   5  
61 house nə-max   51  
112 rotten word info -mumu   51  
139 cold word info mɪla   51  
15 bone su-   52  
92 to open, uncover -wale   55  
170 when? word info varɛn   56  
76 to live, be alive -siliv   57  
69 to hunt word info -xaɣax   59, 64  
17 liver xarn-   5?  
168 day rɛn   6  
34 to cry -valo   60  
58 wife noɛn tavɛt   64  
105 tail vəli-n   64  
161 shy, ashamed -momiɣ   65  
180 far viva   65  
194 how? word info hinapi   65  
150 yellow i-wəs   67  
56 child marⁿdɛl   68  
169 year pai   68  
107 worm (earthworm) sɪlɛs   68, 72  
87 to swell word info -ɛrɛn   69  
196 to count -spɪsnan   69  
32 tongue nlm-   7, 41  
83 to work word info -pare   7, 73  
88 to squeeze word info -mlani   70  
59 mother oune   71  
74 to kill -rapupini   71, 1  
135 lightning lɛvmatn   77  
28 to breathe -rivinalɛn   77, 78  
35 to vomit -lu   8  
13 back word info ⁿdu-   82  
30 mouth pn-   83  
111 fish tilo   83  
144 to burn word info i-vɛn   83  
66 to tie up, fasten -xawi   84  
57 husband nau-k   85  
72 to hit word info -rpi   87  
94 to throw word info -sərani   87  
49 to lie down word info -wasri   88  
89 to hold word info -wənde   89  
24 head pət-   9  
203 Seven word info saru   9  
207 Twenty word info i-nɛlru   9  
153 big -lil   91  
127 woods/forest lilimt   92?  
131 cloud word info pɛkmarɛn   94  
179 near -mima   95  
185 we word info naknd we pl incl I  
186 you kami iru you dual x  
187 they xir aru they dual x  
208 Fifty word info i-nɛlɪm   x  

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