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Language: Orkon

Source/Author:  Crowley, Lynch, Early - notes 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:  Glottocode: orko1234 
Notes:  A moribund language of West Ambrym, Vanuatu, now spoken by almost no active speakers, maybe 40 or so have a passive knowledge of it. 
Problems:  In some cases in our notes, there is some dispute as to whether a vowel is e or open e, or again o or open o. No final phonemic analysis of the vowels has been done, due to inadequate data. We believe that possibly the sole fluent speaker (who we worked with briefly) has since died. 
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:East Vanuatu 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
58 wife      
62 thatch/roof      
68 needle      
70 to shoot word info      
73 to steal      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
107 worm (earthworm)      
113 branch word info      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand vela-   16  
2 left mʷil   1, 59  
3 right mæru   5, 37  
4 leg/foot ye-   45  
5 to walk tele   104  
6 road/path silil   1  
7 to come me   1  
8 to turn word info kelai   25?  
9 to swim lolō   8  
11 dust bulumolɔɔ   20  
12 skin leŋe-   1, 81  
13 back word info pʷiri   52  
14 belly toa-   43  
15 bone pal|si   52, 59  
16 intestines tine-   1  
17 liver linar   36  
18 breast   1  
19 shoulder pʷelespʷe   65?  
20 to know, be knowledgeable kil|pʷele   18, 85  
21 to think notnor      
22 to fear mɨro   1  
23 blood ra   1  
24 head pare-   9  
25 neck ewundo-   80  
26 hair word info vɨlo-   31  
27 nose koso-   27, 55  
28 to breathe taboŋo   72  
29 to sniff, smell pon|əse   42  
30 mouth boŋo-   41  
31 tooth luo-   1, 35  
32 tongue mia-   7  
33 to laugh mæn   51  
34 to cry raŋ   1  
35 to vomit lo   8  
36 to spit kup   19  
37 to eat yɛn   1  
40 to drink min   1, 49  
41 to bite ari   1, 55  
42 to suck pa|sum   51  
43 ear releŋa-   1, 40  
44 to hear loŋone   1  
45 eye mera-   1  
46 to see kulkulo   120  
48 to sleep fʷier   87  
49 to lie down word info liŋ kareno   25  
51 to sit tofan   80  
52 to stand sop      
53 person/human being namʷe   4, 27  
55 woman/female vɛn   1, 41  
56 child lolpuŋpoŋ   81  
61 house ɛm   1  
63 name isa-   1, 18  
64 to say war   30  
65 rope awa   25, 59  
66 to tie up, fasten fari   35  
67 to sew word info sene   62  
69 to hunt word info mɨtlo      
71 to stab, pierce tili   14  
72 to hit word info lupu   48  
74 to kill lupu      
74 to kill to|pini   1  
75 to die, be dead mier   1  
76 to live, be alive mɨl   1, 76  
77 to scratch word info kelkele      
78 to cut, hack word info t   1?  
79 stick/wood ririli-ye   1  
80 to split word info lel      
81 sharp ken   14  
83 to work word info ɣ      
87 to swell word info mokolo   60  
88 to squeeze word info usi   18, 71  
89 to hold word info rokoni   49  
90 to dig kil   1  
94 to throw word info topne   88  
95 to fall word info mur   57  
96 dog kuli   7 L
97 bird pael   30  
98 egg rili|ri   1, 66  
99 feather velo-   1  
100 wing apau-   1, 58  
101 to fly ka   14  
102 rat tɔmɔ   72  
103 meat/flesh isi   10  
104 fat/grease kulori   42?  
106 snake tiltiel   13  
108 louse word info ur   1  
109 mosquito paŋken   35  
111 fish malo   52  
112 rotten word info po   52  
114 leaf lo|ko   1  
115 root lipʷi   18  
116 flower wuŋo-   1  
117 fruit we-   1, 26  
118 grass lopʷer|mune   31  
119 earth/soil tan   1  
120 stone vior   1  
121 sand pelo|en   1  
122 water word info we   2  
123 to flow mokɨr   66  
124 sea tie   1?  
127 woods/forest pupuor   83, 85  
127 woods/forest pʷirior      
128 sky toŋtoŋ   62  
129 moon apari   6  
130 star mɨso   13  
131 cloud word info (si)lolō      
132 fog mōp   3, 32  
133 rain ō   1  
134 thunder palta   85  
135 lightning pel   26, 70  
136 wind leŋ   1, 77  
137 to blow word info u   4, 81  
138 warm word info fenfaŋ   1, 50  
139 cold word info mel   51  
140 dry word info toŋtoŋ   99  
140 dry word info mem   11  
141 wet sipsiep      
142 heavy map   46  
143 fire fæŋ   21  
144 to burn word info yɛn   83  
144 to burn word info mʷane   83  
145 smoke word info yo   2, 77  
146 ash mai      
147 black mirmir   1  
148 white mɨ-fɨfɨ   1?  
149 red filfili   18  
150 yellow yiŋyæŋ   9  
151 green mɨlmɨl   13  
152 small kekeli   2  
153 big topo      
154 short word info mʷermʷer   32  
155 long word info pɨlɔɔp   16  
156 thin word info minip   1  
157 thick word info mirel   3  
160 painful, sick mise   1  
162 old word info mæro   1  
163 new yiye      
164 good we   1  
165 bad, evil sakape   1?  
167 night lon|bumalɛk   43  
168 day liyal      
170 when? word info naŋe   1, 43  
170 when? word info pilikope      
174 in, inside lo   1  
177 this kole      
178 that kola      
179 near felte   42?  
180 far soren   1  
181 where? word info pe   3, 35  
182 I no   1, 21, 22  
183 thou nak   1, 17, 18  
184 he/she ŋe   1, 6  
185 we word info er   1  
185 we word info ɣɲmɲm   2  
186 you ɣimim   1, 33  
187 they yel   1, 70  
188 what? word info sowe   1, 72  
189 who? word info si   1  
190 other kotine      
191 all sela   49  
192 and ro   57  
193 if ɣile      
194 how? word info min mane sowe      
195 no, not mʷiraŋa      
196 to count fulfuluk   1  
197 One word info (h)ol   5  
198 Two word info   1  
199 Three word info siel   1  
200 Four word info yar   1, 65  
201 Five word info lim   1  
202 Six word info melep sie   33  
203 Seven word info melep lɔ      
204 Eight word info melep siel   7  
205 Nine word info melep yar   20  
206 Ten word info seŋail   5  
125 salt tie = sea 20?  
209 One Hundred word info vele = village 34  
169 year rom = yam 30  
158 narrow sele|walkier ? (sele = path?) x  
59 mother nina address 1, 46  
60 father tita address 19  
57 husband entɛn also man, person 76  
54 man/male entɛn also person, husband 75, 89  
105 tail kile- animal 1  
105 tail punse- bird 76  
166 correct, true meor correct    
126 lake we|male may be proper noun 9  
10 dirty soksok possibly means 'rubbish' 36?  
59 mother laha- reference    
60 father tema- reference 1  
110 spider ramo|lo spiderweb 1  
166 correct, true enko true/real    

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