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Language: Mato (Ramuk dialect)

Source/Author:  Stober 2005, 2013 & Lincoln 1976 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:met  Glottocode: mato1252 
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Author / Source: Stober, Scot, 2005. Mato dialect survey. Unpublished ms., Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Stober, Scot F., 2013. Mato grammar sketch. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG Academic Publications. (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 59)
Lincoln, Peter C., 1976. Rai Coast Austronesian language survey data, in two parts. Mimeo, University of Hawai`i.

Notes: Stober's list is the main source, but supplemented with data from Lincoln's Nenaya list (agreement between the two lists is good) and from Stober's grammar sketch.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Malcolm Ross  Checked By: Malcolm Ross 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:North New Guinea:Ngero-Vitiaz:Vitiaz:Roinji-Nenaya 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
28 to breathe      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
62 thatch/roof      
73 to steal      
76 to live, be alive      
85 to choose      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
113 branch word info      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
166 correct, true      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand rimano   1  
2 left xoŋ      
3 right rimamo      
4 leg/foot kino      
5 to walk haxa   123  
6 road/path daxaŋa   70  
7 to come ma   1  
8 to turn word info gea Source: Lincoln    
8 to turn word info yaga      
9 to swim yum   94  
10 dirty musu   136  
11 dust gagap   59  
12 skin saŋganoa   95  
13 back word info ubunoa   101  
14 belly gamonoa   45  
15 bone tuana   1, 10  
16 intestines wau- Source: Lincoln 81  
17 liver atina   1  
18 breast suindi      
19 shoulder yaxunoa   27  
20 to know, be knowledgeable abia      
21 to think hatum   86  
22 to fear tari Source: Lincoln 63  
23 blood sibina   60  
24 head tohonoa      
25 neck waxuntowanoa   127  
26 hair word info toholondi   77  
27 nose yuŋxanoa   1  
29 to sniff, smell yuyu Source: Lincoln 89  
30 mouth soxoŋunoa      
31 tooth wena metathesis? 2, 68  
32 tongue manano   45  
33 to laugh masisi   103  
34 to cry taŋ   1  
35 to vomit xua Source: Lincoln 8  
36 to spit ŋip Source: Lincoln 119  
37 to eat xaŋ   1  
38 to chew word info ɡɑxu-ti Source: Grammar    
39 to cook word info tau Source: Lincoln 10  
40 to drink nuŋ   1, 34  
41 to bite gaxu   78  
42 to suck tumtum Source: Lincoln 81  
43 ear taŋaŋliana   1, 49  
44 to hear luŋu   1, 36  
45 eye maxanoa      
46 to see bagu   122  
48 to sleep kinu mɑtɑbu   8  
49 to lie down word info kinu   1  
51 to sit ruŋ   25  
52 to stand li   104  
53 person/human being lipax      
54 man/male lipu   121  
55 woman/female haiŋ   1, 106  
56 child garaxa- Source: Lincoln 90  
57 husband haiya- Source: Lincoln    
58 wife haini- Source: Lincoln 5, 68  
59 mother bauna   87  
60 father tibuna   44  
61 house numa   1, 49  
63 name ya-noa   66  
64 to say harua   154  
65 rope waxu   2  
66 to tie up, fasten uxana      
67 to sew word info garalup      
68 needle heinnanuna      
69 to hunt word info garakambaŋina      
70 to shoot word info waŋ Source: Lincoln 1  
71 to stab, pierce su Source: Lincoln 1, 8  
72 to hit word info taha   112  
72 to hit word info taŋa Source: Lincoln    
74 to kill uŋmati   1, 2  
75 to die, be dead mati   1  
77 to scratch word info xax Source: Lincoln 83  
78 to cut, hack word info tari Source: Lincoln 1  
79 stick/wood tuki      
80 to split word info taisa Source: Lincoln 87  
81 sharp maxaxa Source: Lincoln 36  
82 dull, blunt uruŋia Source: Lincoln 78  
83 to work word info uwata Source: Lincoln 41  
84 to plant xuma Source: Grammar 8  
86 to grow word info sok Source: Grammar    
87 to swell word info poru Source: Lincoln    
88 to squeeze word info hisa Source: Lincoln 29  
89 to hold word info took   103  
90 to dig ki Source: Grammar    
91 to buy gim Source: Grammar 17  
94 to throw word info tiŋ   110  
95 to fall word info xuŋ mari      
96 dog koma   13  
97 bird maŋ   1  
98 egg hataxona   1  
99 feather buxana   75, 77  
100 wing baŋgitoŋina      
101 to fly laŋo Source: Lincoln; this looks like a cognate of 'fly' the insect X  
102 rat gamboxam   89  
103 meat/flesh mututuŋana   97  
104 fat/grease orana   89  
105 tail waxana      
106 snake moxa   12  
107 worm (earthworm) gipmaŋ Source: Lincoln 79  
108 louse word info girak   32  
109 mosquito kaŋkoŋ   96  
110 spider kaubok Source: Lincoln 84  
111 fish soŋ   91  
112 rotten word info buya 'be rotten'; Source: Grammar 9  
114 leaf lona   1  
115 root oxoxana   2, 56  
116 flower haidaŋa      
117 fruit hatuna Source: Lincoln 8  
118 grass tatambuŋ Source: Lincoln 97  
119 earth/soil titi   89  
120 stone siaŋ   50  
121 sand ulaŋulaŋ   97  
122 water word info laŋ   1  
123 to flow asi Source: Lincoln 83  
124 sea tek   64  
125 salt tek   51  
126 lake laŋ suana Source: Lincoln 43, 45  
127 woods/forest uŋanano Source: Lincoln    
128 sky sabaluna Source: Grammar    
129 moon sobak   69  
130 star hatuŋ   1, 37  
131 cloud word info sabalunu Source: Lincoln 100  
132 fog mugap Source: Lincoln 1, 84  
133 rain kuya   1  
136 wind yaŋ      
137 to blow word info ma Source: Lincoln 74  
138 warm word info yahana   1  
139 cold word info kariŋana   104  
140 dry word info mutuxuno      
140 dry word info masa Source: Lincoln 11  
141 wet wamato      
141 wet laŋina Source: Lincoln 101  
142 heavy maxuana Source: Lincoln 47  
143 fire yap   1  
144 to burn word info tuŋ   1, 7  
145 smoke word info bunuxuyana      
146 ash haiyata   88  
147 black mutuxuna   95  
148 white usamana   117  
149 red saboxana   112  
150 yellow saŋayana   85  
151 green gamatana   1, 80  
152 small kaukana      
153 big sabaŋa   118  
154 short word info raxabiana      
155 long word info maxaxea   12  
156 thin word info ulena kokano Source: Lincoln 54  
157 thick word info tuxu ulena Source: Lincoln 64  
158 narrow wisa Source: Lincoln 84  
159 wide tibaya Source: Lincoln    
160 painful, sick busi Source: Lincoln    
161 shy, ashamed memaya 'shame' n.; Source: Grammar 1  
162 old word info luaŋa Source: Lincoln    
163 new hauna   1, 26  
164 good xaisibuna      
165 bad, evil diana   14  
167 night yamboŋ   1  
168 day kaijap Source: Lincoln 1, 54  
169 year aniani Source: Lincoln 81  
170 when? word info buŋintabi   81  
171 to hide word info hisa Source: Grammar    
172 to climb word info haiŋ Source: Grammar    
173 at -ia postposition; Source: Lincoln 12  
174 in, inside lu- 'inside', n.inal.;Source: Grammar 1  
175 above etua Source: Grammar    
176 below hawa Source: Grammar    
177 this alali      
178 that alala      
179 near hek Source: Lincoln    
180 far soia Source: Lincoln 1  
181 where? word info bila   85  
182 I ŋa   12  
183 thou   1, 66  
184 he/she ina   1, 66  
185 we word info kiraba      
186 you aŋba   1, 55  
187 they jiŋ   63  
188 what? word info baraɣinta      
189 who? word info gaxarea   52  
190 other aŋana Source: Lincoln    
191 all diŋloŋgalo      
192 and saiŋ sequential and simultaneous conjunction; Source: Grammar    
193 if nabu Source: Grammar    
194 how? word info baru Source: Grammar    
195 no, not kira Source: Lincoln    
196 to count titi Source: Lincoln 18  
197 One word info taininao      
198 Two word info luwa   1  
199 Three word info luahiliana      
199 Three word info tuwa Source: Grammar    
200 Four word info luadi luadi      
201 Five word info luadi luadi hiliadiŋa      
202 Six word info luwa luwa luwa      
203 Seven word info luwadi luwadi tuwa Source: Grammar    
204 Eight word info luadi luadi luadi luadi Source: Grammar    
204 Eight word info rima hataina luwa hiliana Source: Grammar    
205 Nine word info rima hataina luwadi luwadi Source: Grammar    
206 Ten word info (rima) hataing hatain Source: Grammar    

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