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Language: Tami

Source/Author:  Malcolm Ross, fieldnotes, supplemented Bamler 1990 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:tmy  Glottocode: tami1290 
Notes:  Bamler, Georg, 1900. Bemerkungen zur Grammatik der Tami-Sprache. Zeitschrift für afrikanische und ozeanische Sprachen 5:198-253.

Spoken on islands off the southeast point of the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea.
 
Problems:  The sources appear to differ somewhat. Reliability is somewhat less than good. Not clear if there is a distinction between prenasalised and non-prenasalised voiced stops. 
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:Tami 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
8 to turn word info      
16 intestines      
47 to yawn      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
82 dull, blunt      
3 right kanoŋ      
5 to walk wajaŋ      
6 road/path kinakau      
9 to swim pup      
11 dust siʔ      
14 belly kato-wau      
19 shoulder dumunkae      
20 to know, be knowledgeable kabit      
21 to think kade- ŋka 'stomach- ??'    
24 head doa-alu      
25 neck koloŋpa      
28 to breathe siiau      
31 tooth nauŋpu      
32 tongue kawaŋmal      
41 to bite ŋel      
42 to suck yili      
51 to sit nju      
54 man/male damo      
55 woman/female tiwi      
59 mother anaŋ      
62 thatch/roof njalum      
64 to say ganse      
65 rope woti      
67 to sew word info tagin      
68 needle ulaŋ large vs small    
68 needle sagal large vs small    
69 to hunt word info bikʷada      
71 to stab, pierce pan      
72 to hit word info la      
78 to cut, hack word info buʔ      
79 stick/wood yat      
80 to split word info yal      
83 to work word info -makat      
84 to plant -puŋ      
85 to choose -weleg      
87 to swell word info tiŋ      
90 to dig koun      
91 to buy buyaŋ      
92 to open, uncover yau      
93 to pound, beat word info -la      
95 to fall word info bil      
99 feather lala-      
100 wing bak      
102 rat wota 'mouse'    
103 meat/flesh flesh This is English!    
104 fat/grease yit      
106 snake mama      
107 worm (earthworm) galagal      
109 mosquito patipat      
118 grass yiyili      
119 earth/soil nam      
121 sand kop      
123 to flow bul      
124 sea moi      
125 salt balaki      
126 lake lake English!   ??
127 woods/forest walilo      
128 sky kayodag      
129 moon kayo      
131 cloud word info katewal      
132 fog kupip      
136 wind njel      
137 to blow word info titi      
139 cold word info ibitilup      
141 wet kibum      
142 heavy mipapa      
145 smoke word info ya      
146 ash kalit      
147 black gwagu      
152 small epe      
153 big ŋaniʔ      
154 short word info tute      
156 thin word info mamani      
157 thick word info ndandan      
158 narrow narrow ?????    
159 wide -pa      
160 painful, sick njiu      
162 old word info laŋgwa      
164 good lameʔ      
165 bad, evil isan      
170 when? word info ndeŋ nei      
172 to climb word info -ŋke      
173 at ŋke      
177 this ege MR's fieldnotes    
178 that dole MR's fieldnotes    
179 near taŋkai      
180 far yei      
190 other sousou      
191 all simba      
193 if buyaŋ      
193 if yaya      
194 how? word info mandomoka      
196 to count yau      
202 Six word info lima ma te      
203 Seven word info lima ma lu      
204 Eight word info lima ma tul      
205 Nine word info lima ma pat      
206 Ten word info limantalu      
207 Twenty word info damo monte 'a whole person'    
176 below lam   84  
4 leg/foot ke-   1  
12 skin kuli-   1 1
17 liver kat   1  
18 breast sut   1  
22 to fear matat.   1  
23 blood ndal   1  
34 to cry taŋ   1  
37 to eat gan   1  
43 ear taŋalau   1  
44 to hear liŋon   1  
45 eye matalu   1  
49 to lie down word info gen   1  
52 to stand monji   1  
58 wife kajoa-   1  
60 father tama-   1  
61 house lum   1  
66 to tie up, fasten -lik   1  
75 to die, be dead mat   1  
86 to grow word info tatum   1  
89 to hold word info gugum   1  
97 bird man   1  
98 egg katul   1  
101 to fly lo   1  
110 spider laulau   1  
111 fish i   1  
113 branch word info lak   1  
114 leaf lau   1  
120 stone paʔ   1  
122 water word info lan   1  
130 star biti   1  
133 rain kut   1  
143 fire yaʔ   1  
151 green mata   1  
161 shy, ashamed -meame   1  
167 night boŋ   1  
174 in, inside lo   1  
184 he/she yei MR's fieldnotes 1  
186 you niŋgam   1  
188 what? word info sau   1  
189 who? word info sai   1  
198 Two word info lu   1  
199 Three word info tul   1  
200 Four word info pat   1  
201 Five word info lim   1  
168 day kat   1, 54  
144 to burn word info tun   1, 7  
15 bone tukatuk   1, 10  
182 I yau   1, 21  
105 tail yui   1, 25  
163 new opo   1, 26  
138 warm word info wawan   1, 33  
40 to drink num   1, 34  
70 to shoot word info mane   1, 50  
73 to steal minau   1, 58  
112 rotten word info mawul   1, 65  
1 hand nima-   1, 66  
53 person/human being tamala   1, 66  
171 to hide word info mumuŋ   1, 67  
183 thou kom   1, 67  
50 to dream wiʔ   1, 77  
7 to come lam   1, 85  
134 thunder papap   104  
10 dirty tumtum   105  
36 to spit loat   108  
140 dry word info mamat   11  
46 to see tawa   116  
148 white bamobam   118  
155 long word info molau   12  
197 One word info te   14  
2 left ŋat   19  
57 husband kajoa-   2  
115 root walik metathesis 2  
135 lightning kujil   2  
175 above po   2  
192 and ma   2  
185 we word info niŋgai   2, 54  
88 to squeeze word info pip   21  
116 flower bul   22  
27 nose nusubwai   27  
39 to cook word info -tago   27  
33 to laugh mamal   3  
108 louse word info tum   3  
30 mouth kawaŋ-lu   36  
81 sharp matalu   36  
195 no, not ta   4  
26 hair word info doa-lau   40  
96 dog kauŋ   43  
77 to scratch word info kalukal   44  
117 fruit kanoŋ   47  
56 child natu-   5  
94 to throw word info tuk   5  
149 red sinsin   50  
13 back word info dumu   61  
38 to chew word info soŋ   62  
187 they sin MR's fieldnotes 63  
63 name ijaŋ   66  
181 where? word info nei   66  
35 to vomit luat   8  
48 to sleep gin   8  
150 yellow yaŋuyaŋ   9  
166 correct, true kanoŋ   95  
29 to sniff, smell nut   97  
169 year yal   x L
208 Fifty word info fifty Bamler says no numeral x  
209 One Hundred word info hundred Bamler says no numeral x  
210 One Thousand word info thousand Bamler says no numeral x  

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