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Language: Ifo (Utaha)

Source/Author:  Lynch (1983) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:iff  Glottocode: ifoo1237 
Notes: 
John Lynch. 1983. Utaha. In John Lynch (ed.), Studies in the Languages of Erromango, 184-190. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Utaha, now extinct, was spoken in the north-west of Erromango. It was al most
extinct when Gordon published his 1889 sketch of Yoku, and that sketch in­
included only brief samples of Utaha.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Simon Greenhill  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:South Vanuatu:Erromanga 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand      
2 left      
3 right      
4 leg/foot      
5 to walk      
6 road/path      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
11 dust      
12 skin      
13 back word info      
14 belly      
15 bone      
16 intestines      
17 liver      
18 breast      
19 shoulder      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
24 head      
25 neck      
26 hair word info      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
30 mouth      
31 tooth      
32 tongue      
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      
43 ear      
44 to hear      
45 eye      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
53 person/human being      
54 man/male      
55 woman/female      
56 child      
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother      
61 house      
62 thatch/roof      
64 to say      
65 rope      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
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      
75 to die, be dead      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
79 stick/wood      
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      
96 dog      
97 bird      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm)      
108 louse word info      
109 mosquito      
110 spider      
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info      
114 leaf      
115 root      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
118 grass      
120 stone      
121 sand      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
131 cloud word info      
132 fog      
133 rain      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
136 wind      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info      
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
142 heavy      
143 fire      
144 to burn word info      
145 smoke word info      
146 ash      
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      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new      
165 bad, evil      
166 correct, true      
167 night      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
179 near      
180 far      
188 what? word info      
190 other      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
196 to count      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
20 to know, be knowledgeable okori      
23 blood ude      
48 to sleep ahlumraŋ      
60 father timen      
60 father timo voc.    
63 name nin      
119 earth/soil yumup earth    
124 sea novonau      
177 this yamu      
178 that yumu      
181 where? word info aha      
185 we word info gis (inc.)    
185 we word info kum (exc.)    
191 all uvum plural, all    
191 all yu plural, all    
195 no, not tavewe not    
197 One word info soǥoi      
198 Two word info kalu      
199 Three word info kihili      
202 Six word info simsoǥoi      
203 Seven word info simnalu      
205 Nine word info simnivat      
207 Twenty word info narolem-kalu      
183 thou ko (sg.) 1  
201 Five word info sukrim   1, 13  
187 they yoril   1, 70  
186 you kimi (pl.) 1, 13  
182 I yo   1, 21  
170 when? word info noŋo   1, 43  
184 he/she iyi he, she, it 1, 43  
130 star umse   13  
122 water word info uyu   2  
192 and im (joins NPs only) 2  
7 to come enim ? 25  
128 sky unpokup heaven, sky 26  
129 moon iriis   30  
206 Ten word info narolem   4  
164 good aramai   41  
169 year nevi   41  
189 who? word info wi who (sg.) 42  
189 who? word info uwi who (pl.) 42  
111 fish umu   51  
168 day nelin   6  
204 Eight word info simniheli   7  
200 Four word info lemelu   8  
202 Six word info miseǥai   9  

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