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Language: Fijian (Vanualevuicake; Koibau/Qoibau)

Source/Author:  Paul Geraghty 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:  Glottocode:  
Notes:  Geraghty (1983). The History of the Fijian Languages. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, 19. University of Hawaii Press.

Spoken in the following villages: Nakoroiri/Nakorowiri; Yaudigi; Vunitalice/Vunidalice 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Stephen Mann, Benedikt Wimmer  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian 
Map  Sorry, no map co-ordinates found for this language. 

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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand liga   1, 64, 34  
2 left      
3 right      
4 leg/foot tua   111  
5 to walk lako   1  
6 road/path      
7 to come mai   1  
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim qalo   5  
10 dirty      
11 dust      
12 skin      
13 back word info daku   12  
14 belly kete   7  
15 bone dua   52  
16 intestines      
17 liver      
18 breast      
19 shoulder      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear rere   93  
23 blood      
24 head   93  
25 neck      
26 hair word info      
27 nose ucu   1  
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
30 mouth draka   108  
31 tooth      
32 tongue      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry tagi   1  
35 to vomit      
36 to spit      
37 to eat magiti   62  
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink unu   1  
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
43 ear taliga   1  
44 to hear      
45 eye      
46 to see iga   137  
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit tiko   80  
52 to stand      
53 person/human being tamata   1, 66  
54 man/male tagane   1, 14  
55 woman/female yalewa   55  
56 child yaqiti   111  
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother      
60 father      
61 house vale   14  
62 thatch/roof      
63 name yaca   1, 18  
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 butako   1, 58  
74 to kill      
75 to die, be dead      
76 to live, be alive bula   28  
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
79 stick/wood kacu   1  
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 kolī   7  
97 bird      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
102 rat kalavo   1  
103 meat/flesh ilava   114  
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm)      
108 louse word info      
109 mosquito      
110 spider      
111 fish qoli   100  
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info      
114 leaf      
115 root      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
118 grass      
119 earth/soil      
120 stone      
121 sand      
122 water word info      
123 to flow      
124 sea      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
128 sky      
129 moon      
130 star      
131 cloud word info      
132 fog      
133 rain uca   1  
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 buka   17  
144 to burn word info      
145 smoke word info      
146 ash      
147 black      
148 white      
149 red      
150 yellow      
151 green      
152 small qisi   164  
153 big levu   10  
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      
164 good sika   151  
165 bad, evil   1  
166 correct, true      
167 night bogi   1  
168 day      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at i   1  
174 in, inside      
175 above cake   25  
176 below      
177 this ē   102  
177 this ī   103  
178 that ena   89  
178 that karai   79  
178 that   115  
178 that maina   75  
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info vei   3  
182 I au   1, 21  
183 thou o   38  
183 thou iko   1  
184 he/she ia   1  
185 we word info kida   1  
186 you miau   57  
187 they kidra   1, 70  
188 what? word info cava   1  
189 who? word info cei   1  
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not maqa   131  
196 to count      
197 One word info      
198 Two word info      
199 Three word info      
200 Four word info      
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
203 Seven word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      

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