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Language: ʝalasu

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:  Glottocode: bala1316 
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:
5 to walk      
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
12 skin      
15 bone      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
35 to vomit      
36 to spit      
37 to eat      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
44 to hear      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
56 child      
63 name      
64 to say      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
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      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
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      
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info      
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
142 heavy      
144 to burn word info      
147 black      
148 white      
149 red      
150 yellow      
151 green      
152 small      
153 big      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
182 I      
183 thou      
184 he/she      
185 we word info      
186 you      
187 they      
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
196 to count      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
54 man/male ac   14  
53 person/human being aju liet̪   96  
57 husband aron   2, 31  
110 spider aʰp   95  
60 father caman   1  
59 mother caʝo   89  
102 rat ciᵐbʷi   3  
160 painful, sick folic   38  
168 day ga:t̪   51  
1 hand ie n   11  
75 to die, be dead jalek mac   1  
43 ear jali n   1  
65 rope jan   25?  
14 belly jera n   1  
17 liver kiʝe n   1  
96 dog koau   17  
32 tongue kumen   14, 7  
97 bird mali   1  
61 house moa   1  
129 moon moalok   52, 71  
165 bad, evil moaɲ   36  
143 fire na:p   48  
131 cloud word info nae uru   3, 38  
128 sky nanⁿda   1  
109 mosquito naᵐbi   1  
111 fish no   9  
25 neck no n   18  
30 mouth nuã n   36  
121 sand o:n   1  
133 rain ora   1  
198 Two word info paru   1  
200 Four word info pat̪ pas   1, 65  
199 Three word info pat̪en   1  
31 tooth penuã n   21, 1  
130 star piʝu   1  
197 One word info poalaic   14  
207 Twenty word info poalaic ac      
206 Ten word info poalurik   51  
201 Five word info poanem   1, 15  
209 One Hundred word info poanem ac      
204 Eight word info poanem jen      
202 Six word info poanem jie      
205 Nine word info poanem ᵐbac      
203 Seven word info poanem ⁿdu      
117 fruit poat̪   1  
26 hair word info pole ᵐboa n   31  
145 smoke word info puᵐbo na:p   88  
55 woman/female t̪’ama   119  
2 left t̪’ara maon   1, 59  
3 right t̪’ara maʝun   27  
18 breast t̪’e n   1  
45 eye t̪’evã n   34  
62 thatch/roof uc   72  
23 blood ura n   45?, 1  
115 root wa:t̪   2  
135 lightning waⁿdeva   96  
122 water word info we   2  
136 wind wiu   93, 18?  
58 wife ʝawan   102, 5  
4 leg/foot ʰka n   1  
16 intestines ʰmoejana n   95  
27 nose ʰmʷaⁿde n   14  
134 thunder ʰniʝu   43  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
120 stone ᵐboac   1  
167 night ᵐboan   1  
19 shoulder ᵐbu n   37  
195 no, not ’ai   10  
166 correct, true ’alaju   100, 99  
79 stick/wood ’aⁿda ʝek   49, 47  
113 branch word info ’aⁿdat̪   1  
164 good ’o   53  
124 sea ⁿdalac   1  
6 road/path ⁿdan   1  
114 leaf ⁿdaot̪   1  
146 ash ⁿdap   1  
11 dust ⁿdavo ⁿdilic   1, 58, 78  
119 earth/soil ⁿdilic   1  
13 back word info ⁿdu n   82  
68 needle ⁿdu ᵐbek   44  

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