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Language: Moeneᵐbeŋ

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:msq  Glottocode: caac1237 
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:Extreme Northern 
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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      
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      
150 yellow      
151 green      
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      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
185 we word info a      
187 they a   1, 70?  
53 person/human being ac   4  
11 dust ai pum   20  
166 correct, true ajuk   99  
54 man/male alek   22  
54 man/male alek   22  
57 husband alo n   2, 31  
21 to think a’aia      
60 father camen   1  
96 dog cawek   45  
72 to hit word info caᵐbi      
93 to pound, beat word info caᵐbi   68  
139 cold word info caᵐbuk   12  
197 One word info cec   14  
102 rat ciᵐbʷi   3  
4 leg/foot e n   1  
200 Four word info e pac   1, 65  
199 Three word info ecin   1  
64 to say eli   165  
202 Six word info eni cec      
204 Eight word info eni jin      
205 Nine word info eni pac      
203 Seven word info eniⁿdu      
198 Two word info eru   1  
148 white fulo   3  
62 thatch/roof gun ᵐboan moa      
1 hand i n   11  
156 thin word info i rerep   63  
5 to walk iamoan   2  
84 to plant iamui   73  
9 to swim ieum   97  
181 where? word info io      
163 new jaca pele ɲa   53  
180 far jain moa   96  
179 near jek   57  
43 ear jeni n   1  
143 fire jep   48  
14 belly ji n   1  
164 good jo   53  
3 right jure iɲa   24  
152 small kaᵐbe      
40 to drink keⁿdek   6  
17 liver ki: n   1  
49 to lie down word info kogo   1?  
48 to sleep koileŋ      
133 rain kola   1  
23 blood koro n   45, 1  
42 to suck kukuo ot̪in   5  
32 tongue kumen   14, 7  
183 thou m   27  
192 and ma   2  
160 painful, sick mac   1  
141 wet makar   115  
97 bird meni   1  
140 dry word info meʝuk   54  
149 red mi:a   1, 55  
61 house moa   1  
79 stick/wood moagep   48  
165 bad, evil moaɲ   36  
35 to vomit muja   1  
27 nose mʷaⁿdi n   14  
184 he/she n   1, 6  
193 if neave      
56 child nein   5, 52  
111 fish nek   9  
174 in, inside nen   15  
131 cloud word info neɲ   3  
109 mosquito neᵐbʷic   1  
201 Five word info nim   1, 15  
50 to dream nin      
46 to see noja   9  
25 neck noɲa   18  
138 warm word info nu   11  
121 sand o:n   1  
7 to come ome   1  
2 left omeɲa   14  
16 intestines oxe n   94  
206 Ten word info paiⁿdu   12  
120 stone peic   1  
31 tooth peiõ n   21  
130 star piu:k   1  
117 fruit poen   1  
75 to die, be dead pu ᵐboeri vaɛn      
145 smoke word info pum   88  
26 hair word info pun ᵐboa n   31  
128 sky repoa   75  
168 day t̪a   6  
78 to cut, hack word info t̪amuna   135  
209 One Hundred word info t̪ara nim ac      
170 when? word info t̪en   78  
44 to hear t̪ena   80  
55 woman/female t̪evo      
55 woman/female t̪evo      
18 breast t̪i n   1  
95 to fall word info t̪iluk   46  
45 eye t̪ivã n   34  
92 to open, uncover t̪ívi   37  
157 thick word info uju   28  
162 old word info ulac   65  
196 to count vina   26  
101 to fly vuc   45  
186 you wa   1  
115 root wa:n   2  
153 big wac   7  
30 mouth wana n   36  
129 moon wãnuk   52, 71  
6 road/path waⁿdan   5, 1  
122 water word info we   2  
124 sea wekac   65  
65 rope wer   2  
85 to choose weⁿdoio      
182 I ɲ   1  
185 we word info ɲa      
110 spider ɲagi   94  
59 mother ɲajo   1, 83  
134 thunder ɲoni   43  
135 lightning ɲoni   95  
58 wife ʝawen   102, 5  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
8 to turn word info ᵐbeveni aᵐbur vor      
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
29 to sniff, smell ᵐboni   42  
19 shoulder ᵐbu n   37  
195 no, not ᵐburo   103  
167 night ᵐbʷin   1  
113 branch word info ’i n   59  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ’ina   116  
37 to eat ’u      
188 what? word info ⁿda   1  
136 wind ⁿda:   1  
146 ash ⁿdep   1  
114 leaf ⁿdeun   1  
147 black ⁿdeⁿdo   98  
119 earth/soil ⁿdilic   1  
13 back word info ⁿdu n   82  
68 needle ⁿdu ᵐboek   44  

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