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Language: Jawe

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:jaz  Glottocode: jawe1237 
Notes:  Leenhardt, Maurice. 1946. Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie 
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Transcription converteⁿd to IPA based on author's phonetic descriptions.

Except: some vowels;
[r̃] = "dental nasalised liquid"; and
[’], which I assume to be glottal stop but the author does not explicitly discuss.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Mary Walworth & John Lynch  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:New Caledonian:Northern:North:Nemi 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
10 dirty      
12 skin      
15 bone      
22 to fear      
28 to breathe      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
41 to bite      
47 to yawn      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
57 husband      
58 wife      
63 name      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
94 to throw word info      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake      
108 louse word info      
112 rotten word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
132 fog      
137 to blow word info      
142 heavy      
144 to burn word info      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
194 how? word info      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand ’i n   11  
1 hand ᵐboan kare’i n   11  
2 left jelen xe mo:n   1, 59  
3 right jelen xe juein   24  
4 leg/foot ’e n   1  
4 leg/foot ᵐboan kare’e n   1  
5 to walk poeno   2  
6 road/path ɣʷaran   5, 1?  
7 to come ’eme   1  
8 to turn word info t̪’eruⁿdei      
9 to swim ’iom   97  
11 dust ʰmun guc   105, 1  
13 back word info jai n   12  
14 belly jie n   1  
16 intestines ’oŋe n   33  
17 liver kei n   1  
18 breast t̪’i n   1  
19 shoulder ᵐbu n   37  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ’ina   116  
21 to think ’arat̪      
23 blood kura n   45, 1  
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
25 neck no n   18  
26 hair word info pun ᵐboa n   31  
27 nose ɣʷaⁿdi n   14  
29 to sniff, smell caᵐbi   117  
30 mouth ɣʷa n   36  
31 tooth paʝea n   21  
32 tongue kuvema n   14, 7  
35 to vomit uja   1  
37 to eat kun   1, 16  
37 to eat kuni   1, 16  
40 to drink kuⁿduk   6  
40 to drink ʰpelo   67  
42 to suck ⁿdit̪   25  
43 ear jene n   1  
44 to hear t̪ena   80  
45 eye t̪’ivae n   34  
46 to see noen      
48 to sleep keuleŋ   111  
49 to lie down word info kego   1?  
50 to dream nep   1, 60  
53 person/human being kac like   4  
54 man/male kaʝuk   22  
54 man/male kalo n   22  
55 woman/female ʰnemo   119  
55 woman/female ŋanen      
56 child nain   5, 52  
59 mother cen   1  
60 father caun   45  
61 house ŋa   1  
62 thatch/roof main ŋa   52  
64 to say peci   166  
65 rope weᵐbiʝi   2  
68 needle ⁿdu ᵐboek   44  
72 to hit word info keliek   112  
75 to die, be dead maxiᵐboan   1, 44  
78 to cut, hack word info t̪’eᵐbuna   135  
79 stick/wood maʝan cek   46, 47  
84 to plant t̪eu   46?  
85 to choose ɲamui   7  
92 to open, uncover t̪ari      
93 to pound, beat word info caᵐbi   68  
95 to fall word info t̪awa   133  
96 dog ke kaɲ   43  
97 bird poen manik   1  
101 to fly t̪an   90  
102 rat kat̪ava   5  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
109 mosquito naguk   1  
110 spider nak   94  
111 fish nuk   9  
113 branch word info ’i n   59  
114 leaf ⁿdon   1  
115 root wa:n   2  
117 fruit poen   1  
119 earth/soil ⁿdilic   1  
120 stone paik   1  
121 sand kon   1  
122 water word info we   2  
124 sea jat̪ik   1  
128 sky poa   75  
129 moon ɣʷanuk   71  
130 star piuk   1  
131 cloud word info neɲ   3  
133 rain kut̪   1  
134 thunder niuk   43  
135 lightning ʰɲoni   95  
136 wind ⁿda:   1  
138 warm word info ’inu   11  
139 cold word info caxuk   12  
140 dry word info ʝaᵐboat̪   52  
141 wet moguk   115  
143 fire ʝak   1?  
145 smoke word info ʰmu   2, 76  
146 ash ⁿdap   1  
147 black ʰpom      
148 white pulo   3  
149 red mi:a   1, 55  
150 yellow puɲ   91  
151 green puɲen cek   19?  
152 small moaɲ      
153 big ’ac   7  
156 thin word info t̪erep   63  
157 thick word info ’uju   28  
160 painful, sick ʰpalik   38  
162 old word info va’i   71  
162 old word info uⁿden   65  
163 new guakaʝa   53  
164 good kop   53  
165 bad, evil kenuk      
166 correct, true juxejuk   99  
167 night gen   1  
168 day ⁿdeni mala   1, 54  
170 when? word info t̪en   78  
174 in, inside ʝe ren   1, 15  
179 near suk   57  
180 far ’o:t̪   97  
181 where? word info ʝe pe   3  
182 I ŋ   1  
183 thou m   27  
184 he/she n   1, 6  
185 we word info je      
185 we word info ᵐbe      
186 you we   1  
187 they le   1, 70  
188 what? word info sue ve   23?  
192 and ma   2  
193 if poane   23, 12  
195 no, not koi   45  
196 to count ʰpina   26  
197 One word info sec   14  
198 Two word info seluk   1  
199 Three word info sen   1  
200 Four word info ʰpoec   1, 65  
201 Five word info nim   1, 15  
202 Six word info nisec      
203 Seven word info niseluk      
204 Eight word info nisen      
205 Nine word info ni ʰpoec      
206 Ten word info paiⁿdu   12  
207 Twenty word info sec kac      
209 One Hundred word info nim kac      

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