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Language: ʰMoaekɛ

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mkt  Glottocode: vama1243 
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 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
175 above      
191 all      
192 and go   12  
192 and ᵐboa   2  
146 ash ⁿdap   1  
173 at      
13 back word info i ᵐboan jai n   35, 12  
165 bad, evil ɲau      
14 belly i jia n   1  
176 below      
153 big xapoen   14  
97 bird i mani   1  
147 black fiŋ   99  
23 blood i feⁿdala n   46  
15 bone      
113 branch word info i ai ŋan      
18 breast i t̪’i n   1  
56 child i xawe nea      
131 cloud word info ʰnape θoat̪it̪   85  
139 cold word info xʰim   128  
166 correct, true jukeju   99  
168 day θoat̪it̪   51  
10 dirty      
96 dog xawakan   43  
140 dry word info maiu   1  
82 dull, blunt      
11 dust ʰmun ⁿdop   105, 65  
43 ear i jena n   1  
119 earth/soil ⁿdop   11  
98 egg      
204 Eight word info nim ᵐboa t̪’ien      
45 eye ɲane man   1  
180 far a’o:t̪   97  
104 fat/grease      
60 father i jamoa n   1  
99 feather      
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire i mae   51  
111 fish i ɲu   9  
201 Five word info nim   1, 15  
116 flower      
132 fog      
200 Four word info fava   1, 65  
117 fruit i ⁿdapoen   1  
164 good xaʰnaŋ   136, 137  
118 grass      
151 green vun   19?  
151 green ᵐbupu   19?  
26 hair word info ian ᵐboan   4  
1 hand i si n   10  
184 he/she kon   1  
184 he/she ke   1  
24 head ᵐboa n   9  
142 heavy      
61 house i moa   1  
194 how? word info      
57 husband i xat̪ot̪   2, 31  
182 I o   1  
193 if cama   26, 3  
174 in, inside can   15  
16 intestines ni xʰot̪’a n   91  
126 lake      
114 leaf i ⁿdon   1  
2 left jelan poan walaᵐbe   32  
4 leg/foot i xʰa n   1  
135 lightning mianot̪   15?, 94  
17 liver i xʰi: n   1  
155 long word info      
108 louse word info      
54 man/male i xaʝu      
54 man/male apuli nea      
103 meat/flesh      
129 moon poɛ   52  
109 mosquito ɲaᵐbu   1  
59 mother i ɲan   1, 83  
30 mouth ɲivoa n   36  
63 name      
158 narrow      
179 near a pat̪emoano   113  
25 neck i ɲo n   18  
68 needle i ⁿdu ᵐboa   44  
163 new en aᵐboa xaʰmaŋ   53  
167 night ᵐboen   1  
205 Nine word info nim ᵐboa fava      
195 no, not cika   10, 83  
27 nose ʰpoaⁿdi n   14  
162 old word info en a pa xaumu   64  
197 One word info se   14  
209 One Hundred word info nim apuli      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other      
160 painful, sick sinu   106?  
160 painful, sick   1  
53 person/human being apuli nea   93, 95  
133 rain ut̪a   1  
102 rat xʰot̪ap   5  
102 rat sine   96  
149 red t̪ana   2?  
3 right jelan poan ji ei      
6 road/path i foaⁿdan   5, 1  
115 root i wa:n   2  
65 rope i o:t̪   31  
112 rotten word info      
125 salt      
121 sand ʰmewan   31  
124 sea can jat̪i   1  
203 Seven word info nim ᵐboa t̪’alo      
81 sharp      
154 short word info      
19 shoulder vin ᵐboaxisi n   65, 40  
161 shy, ashamed      
202 Six word info nim ᵐboa se      
12 skin      
128 sky cana θoat̪it̪   61  
152 small ju ɣʷat̪in      
145 smoke word info ʰmu   2, 76  
106 snake      
110 spider saʝo   93  
130 star xʰaʰput̪’in   1?  
79 stick/wood ʰmuɲan ʝe   46  
120 stone i vai   1  
105 tail      
206 Ten word info vajilu   12  
178 that      
62 thatch/roof t̪age kon t̪ot̪   20  
187 they le   1, 70  
187 they ke   1, 69  
157 thick word info t̪’aᵐbo   70  
156 thin word info aleⁿdep   63  
177 this      
183 thou ko   1  
199 Three word info t̪’ien   1  
134 thunder iɣʷala   2  
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 t̪’amui   7  
172 to climb word info      
7 to come ’am   1  
39 to cook word info      
196 to count fine   26  
34 to cry      
78 to cut, hack word info t̪’agavi   134  
75 to die, be dead   1  
90 to dig      
50 to dream a voa xʰaɲip   1, 60  
40 to drink a uⁿdu   6  
37 to eat ɣʷiaman   1, 55  
95 to fall word info sigo   130  
22 to fear      
123 to flow      
101 to fly t̪’en can θoat̪it̪   90  
86 to grow word info      
44 to hear t̪ina   80  
171 to hide word info      
72 to hit word info can t̪ea   10?  
89 to hold word info      
69 to hunt word info      
74 to kill      
20 to know, be knowledgeable t̪’a ʰnaŋe ke      
33 to laugh      
49 to lie down word info majit̪   37  
76 to live, be alive      
92 to open, uncover t̪aven   37  
84 to plant cãmi   73  
93 to pound, beat word info t̪’ake   20  
64 to say avi   13, 103  
77 to scratch word info      
46 to see xaleke   125  
67 to sew word info      
70 to shoot word info      
51 to sit      
48 to sleep meᵐbam      
29 to sniff, smell t̪ina   116  
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 a ⁿdit̪   25  
87 to swell word info      
9 to swim t̪om   97  
21 to think ʰmuɲiman   28  
94 to throw word info      
66 to tie up, fasten      
8 to turn word info caguᵐboan      
35 to vomit muja   1  
5 to walk ’an   2  
83 to work word info      
47 to yawn      
32 tongue u ʰpa n   47  
31 tooth vasĩvoa n   6, 1?  
207 Twenty word info se apuli      
198 Two word info t̪alo   1  
138 warm word info xet̪   109  
138 warm word info sinu’aŋ   11  
122 water word info we   2  
185 we word info ga      
185 we word info ᵐbe      
141 wet foaike   115  
188 what? word info i ⁿda   1  
170 when? word info ɲet̪   78  
181 where? word info a ave   3  
148 white foawat̪   11  
189 who? word info      
159 wide      
58 wife i xat̪one t̪’amo      
136 wind i θat̪   1, 66?  
100 wing      
55 woman/female i t̪’amo   119  
55 woman/female i moaⁿden   119  
127 woods/forest      
107 worm (earthworm) i ᵐbet̪   11  
169 year      
150 yellow vaci ⁿdo’aŋ      
186 you gae   1  

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