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Language: Araki (Southwest Santo)

Source/Author:  Francois (2002) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:akr  Glottocode: arak1252 
Notes:  François, A. (2002). Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra.

Small island off the southern coast of Santo; other dialects include Akei, Wailapa and Tangoa.

p', v' and m' are apicolabials
r represents a flap (orthographic d)
rr represents a trill (orthographic r)
 
Problems:  A number of list items are not found in the original source. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: 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:North and Central Vanuatu:Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands:West Santo 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
11 dust      
29 to sniff, smell      
38 to chew word info      
42 to suck      
47 to yawn      
49 to lie down word info      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
73 to steal      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
93 to pound, beat word info      
99 feather      
104 fat/grease      
107 worm (earthworm)      
128 sky      
132 fog      
134 thunder      
139 cold word info      
142 heavy      
145 smoke word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
163 new      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand lim'a   1, 64  
2 left m'arau   2  
3 right m'arrua   5, 37  
4 leg/foot sari   73  
5 to walk v'ano   2  
6 road/path sala   1  
7 to come m'a   1  
8 to turn word info posi   20?  
9 to swim karu   5  
10 dirty lumiha   51  
12 skin huri   1, 80  
13 back word info tsuhu   75  
14 belly paŋe   76  
15 bone sui   52  
16 intestines mavusa   78  
17 liver maape   7  
18 breast susu   1  
19 shoulder pili = head + arm 38  
20 to know, be knowledgeable levse < *le (?) + *βosahi, see (19, 90) 90  
21 to think tsom'itsom'i   13  
22 to fear m'arrahu   1  
23 blood tsai   1  
24 head parru   9  
25 neck ua   18  
26 hair word info vulu   31  
27 nose ŋalsu   1, 60  
28 to breathe m'apu   14  
30 mouth vava   1  
31 tooth hotso   18, 40  
32 tongue m'em'e   7, 41  
33 to laugh m'ana   51  
34 to cry rraŋi   1  
35 to vomit lua   8  
36 to spit lito   37, 101  
37 to eat han   1  
39 to cook word info rrunu   9  
40 to drink inu   1  
41 to bite harri   1, 55  
43 ear poro   16  
44 to hear roŋo   1  
45 eye m'arra   1  
46 to see lesi   14, 94  
48 to sleep ŋorro   63  
50 to dream m'alam'ala-poporo   10  
51 to sit sarai   115  
52 to stand rruru   2, 69  
53 person/human being rratsu   4, 34  
54 man/male lam'ani   1, 71  
55 woman/female p'irra   77  
56 child naru-   5  
57 husband rrua-   60  
58 wife naivou-   89  
59 mother rrarrna-   1, 47  
60 father rram'a-   1  
61 house ima   1  
62 thatch/roof vaparru      
63 name hitsa   1, 35  
64 to say re   29  
65 rope asi   58  
66 to tie up, fasten visi   32  
69 to hunt word info ele   29  
70 to shoot word info soro   16  
71 to stab, pierce tsuruŋ   14  
72 to hit word info ltseŋ   41  
74 to kill nak   61  
75 to die, be dead m'arre   1  
76 to live, be alive m'auru   1, 76  
77 to scratch word info karu   44  
78 to cut, hack word info rrai   1  
79 stick/wood ha   1  
83 to work word info v'ev'e hina do + thing    
86 to grow word info m'auru = be alive 15  
87 to swell word info sosohoni   15  
88 to squeeze word info viris   16  
89 to hold word info varri   34  
90 to dig heli   1  
91 to buy voli   1  
92 to open, uncover ere      
94 to throw word info plane   86?  
95 to fall word info tsovi   13  
96 dog viri   7, 75, 80  
97 bird m'atsi = also 'fish' 24  
98 egg sile   56  
100 wing hapa   1, 12  
101 to fly avu   1?  
102 rat harivi   18  
103 meat/flesh visiho   10  
105 tail vitsi   76  
106 snake marra   12  
108 louse word info hurru   1  
109 mosquito mohi   1, 80  
110 spider para   31  
111 fish m'atsi = also 'bird' 53  
112 rotten word info m'apuhu 'stink' 1  
113 branch word info raŋa   1, 21  
114 leaf ra-   1  
114 leaf rau   1  
115 root horo   2, 41  
116 flower vira   35  
117 fruit vae   35  
118 grass tsuvu   75  
119 earth/soil lep'a   11, 73  
120 stone sule   19  
121 sand onono   1  
122 water word info ai   2  
123 to flow roro   32  
124 sea rrasi   1  
125 salt rrasi   20  
126 lake ai = water 9  
127 woods/forest hurarra tsovo      
129 moon virru = star 1  
130 star virru sarasara   1, 73  
131 cloud word info tsotso   90  
133 rain usa   1  
135 lightning vaha   74  
136 wind laŋi   1, 77  
137 to blow word info serre   26  
137 to blow word info soro   26  
138 warm word info v'aruŋ   91  
140 dry word info koru   29  
140 dry word info m'am'asa   11  
143 fire hapu   19  
144 to burn word info suli   4  
146 ash parriavu   1, 52  
147 black viriha   29  
148 white lulu   89, 91  
149 red hara   53  
150 yellow tsoriha   77  
151 green hetsa   8  
152 small variri   42  
153 big lap'a   10  
154 short word info petepete   9  
155 long word info p'eravu   16  
156 thin word info m'anivunivu   1  
157 thick word info vonoho   35  
160 painful, sick rotso   32  
162 old word info vatsaha   134  
164 good tsu      
164 good holo   55?  
165 bad, evil te   104  
166 correct, true holo      
167 night tsotso   68  
168 day rani   6  
170 when? word info ŋisa   1, 24  
172 to climb word info sihevi      
173 at lo   38  
174 in, inside lolo   1  
175 above kaurra      
176 below karrano 'under' 9  
177 this ne(ne)   1  
178 that honi      
178 that hosu      
179 near rravui   58  
180 far retsi   32?  
180 far vono      
181 where? word info v'e   3  
182 I na   1, 21, 22  
183 thou niko   1, 18  
184 he/she nia   1, 6  
185 we word info nitsa   1  
185 we word info kam'am   2  
186 you kam'im   1, 33  
187 they nira   1, 33  
188 what? word info sa   1  
189 who? word info se   1  
190 other vavono      
191 all tare      
192 and nira-      
193 if re      
194 how? word info sohe sa      
195 no, not tse   10  
196 to count tovo   69, 75  
197 One word info hese   1  
198 Two word info rua   1  
199 Three word info rrolu   1  
200 Four word info v'arri   1, 65  
201 Five word info lim'a   1  
202 Six word info hai|ono   1  
203 Seven word info hai|p'irru   1  
204 Eight word info ha|ualu   3  
205 Nine word info hai|sua   5  
206 Ten word info saŋavulu   5  
207 Twenty word info ŋavul rua   9  
141 wet wet Bislama   L

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