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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:
175 above      
191 all      
192 and ma   2  
146 ash ⁿdep   1  
173 at      
13 back word info ⁿdu n   82  
165 bad, evil moaɲ   36  
14 belly ji n   1  
176 below      
153 big wac   7  
97 bird meni   1  
147 black ⁿdeⁿdo   98  
23 blood koro n   45, 1  
15 bone      
113 branch word info ’i n   59  
18 breast t̪i n   1  
56 child nein   5, 52  
131 cloud word info neɲ   3  
139 cold word info caᵐbuk   12  
166 correct, true ajuk   99  
168 day t̪a   6  
10 dirty      
96 dog cawek   45  
140 dry word info meʝuk   54  
82 dull, blunt      
11 dust ai pum   20  
43 ear jeni n   1  
119 earth/soil ⁿdilic   1  
98 egg      
204 Eight word info eni jin      
45 eye t̪ivã n   34  
180 far jain moa   96  
104 fat/grease      
60 father camen   1  
99 feather      
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire jep   48  
111 fish nek   9  
201 Five word info nim   1, 15  
116 flower      
132 fog      
200 Four word info e pac   1, 65  
117 fruit poen   1  
164 good jo   53  
118 grass      
151 green      
26 hair word info pun ᵐboa n   31  
1 hand i n   11  
184 he/she n   1, 6  
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
142 heavy      
61 house moa   1  
194 how? word info      
57 husband alo n   2, 31  
182 I ɲ   1  
193 if neave      
174 in, inside nen   15  
16 intestines oxe n   94  
126 lake      
114 leaf ⁿdeun   1  
2 left omeɲa   14  
4 leg/foot e n   1  
135 lightning ɲoni   95  
17 liver ki: n   1  
155 long word info      
108 louse word info      
54 man/male alek   22  
54 man/male alek   22  
103 meat/flesh      
129 moon wãnuk   52, 71  
109 mosquito neᵐbʷic   1  
59 mother ɲajo   1, 83  
30 mouth wana n   36  
63 name      
158 narrow      
179 near jek   57  
25 neck noɲa   18  
68 needle ⁿdu ᵐboek   44  
163 new jaca pele ɲa   53  
167 night ᵐbʷin   1  
205 Nine word info eni pac      
195 no, not ᵐburo   103  
27 nose mʷaⁿdi n   14  
162 old word info ulac   65  
197 One word info cec   14  
209 One Hundred word info t̪ara nim ac      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other      
160 painful, sick mac   1  
53 person/human being ac   4  
133 rain kola   1  
102 rat ciᵐbʷi   3  
149 red mi:a   1, 55  
3 right jure iɲa   24  
6 road/path waⁿdan   5, 1  
115 root wa:n   2  
65 rope wer   2  
112 rotten word info      
125 salt      
121 sand o:n   1  
124 sea wekac   65  
203 Seven word info eniⁿdu      
81 sharp      
154 short word info      
19 shoulder ᵐbu n   37  
161 shy, ashamed      
202 Six word info eni cec      
12 skin      
128 sky repoa   75  
152 small kaᵐbe      
145 smoke word info pum   88  
106 snake      
110 spider ɲagi   94  
130 star piu:k   1  
79 stick/wood moagep   48  
120 stone peic   1  
105 tail      
206 Ten word info paiⁿdu   12  
178 that      
62 thatch/roof gun ᵐboan moa      
187 they a   1, 70?  
157 thick word info uju   28  
156 thin word info i rerep   63  
177 this      
183 thou m   27  
199 Three word info ecin   1  
134 thunder ɲoni   43  
41 to bite      
137 to blow word info      
28 to breathe      
144 to burn word info      
91 to buy      
38 to chew word info      
85 to choose weⁿdoio      
172 to climb word info      
7 to come ome   1  
39 to cook word info      
196 to count vina   26  
34 to cry      
78 to cut, hack word info t̪amuna   135  
75 to die, be dead pu ᵐboeri vaɛn      
90 to dig      
50 to dream nin      
40 to drink keⁿdek   6  
37 to eat ’u      
95 to fall word info t̪iluk   46  
22 to fear      
123 to flow      
101 to fly vuc   45  
86 to grow word info      
44 to hear t̪ena   80  
171 to hide word info      
72 to hit word info caᵐbi      
89 to hold word info      
69 to hunt word info      
74 to kill      
20 to know, be knowledgeable ’ina   116  
33 to laugh      
49 to lie down word info kogo   1?  
76 to live, be alive      
92 to open, uncover t̪ívi   37  
84 to plant iamui   73  
93 to pound, beat word info caᵐbi   68  
64 to say eli   165  
77 to scratch word info      
46 to see noja   9  
67 to sew word info      
70 to shoot word info      
51 to sit      
48 to sleep koileŋ      
29 to sniff, smell ᵐboni   42  
36 to spit      
80 to split word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
52 to stand      
73 to steal      
42 to suck kukuo ot̪in   5  
87 to swell word info      
9 to swim ieum   97  
21 to think a’aia      
94 to throw word info      
66 to tie up, fasten      
8 to turn word info ᵐbeveni aᵐbur vor      
35 to vomit muja   1  
5 to walk iamoan   2  
83 to work word info      
47 to yawn      
32 tongue kumen   14, 7  
31 tooth peiõ n   21  
207 Twenty word info      
198 Two word info eru   1  
138 warm word info nu   11  
122 water word info we   2  
185 we word info ɲa      
185 we word info a      
141 wet makar   115  
188 what? word info ⁿda   1  
170 when? word info t̪en   78  
181 where? word info io      
148 white fulo   3  
189 who? word info      
159 wide      
58 wife ʝawen   102, 5  
136 wind ⁿda:   1  
100 wing      
55 woman/female t̪evo      
55 woman/female t̪evo      
127 woods/forest      
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
169 year      
150 yellow      
186 you wa   1  

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