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Language: Niuafo'ou

Source/Author:  Dye (1980) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:num  Glottocode: niua1240 
Notes:  Dye, TS (1980). The Linguistic Position Of Niuafo'ou. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 89, 349-358. 
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:Remote Oceanic:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian:Polynesian:Nuclear:Samoic-Outlier:East Uvean-Niuafo'ou 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand      
5 to walk      
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
11 dust      
14 belly      
15 bone      
16 intestines      
18 breast      
19 shoulder      
21 to think      
25 neck      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
34 to cry      
39 to cook word info      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
53 person/human being      
57 husband      
58 wife      
60 father      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
77 to scratch word info      
80 to split word info      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
97 bird      
98 egg      
99 feather      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm)      
110 spider      
113 branch word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
119 earth/soil      
121 sand      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
129 moon      
132 fog      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
137 to blow word info      
139 cold word info      
141 wet      
144 to burn word info      
145 smoke word info      
148 white      
152 small      
153 big      
154 short word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
165 bad, evil      
168 day      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
181 where? word info      
182 I      
183 thou      
184 he/she      
185 we word info      
186 you      
187 they      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
192 and      
193 if      
195 no, not      
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      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
62 thatch/roof hohoki L from Tongan   L
66 to tie up, fasten ha'i L from Tongan   L
81 sharp tala sharp, pointed object    
83 to work word info ŋāue L from Tongan   L
170 when? word info 'A fe?      
6 road/path hala L from Tongan 1 L
12 skin kili   1  
17 liver 'ate   1  
24 head nima   1  
24 head 'ulu   1  
31 tooth nifo   1  
40 to drink inu   1  
43 ear talinga   1  
45 eye mata eye, see 1  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
108 louse word info kutu   1  
109 mosquito namu   1  
111 fish ika   1  
114 leaf lau   1  
117 fruit fua   1  
124 sea tahi L from Tongan 1 L
124 sea tai   1  
128 sky langi   1  
130 star fetu'u   1  
133 rain 'uha L from Tongan 1 L
143 fire afi   1  
156 thin word info manifi   1  
163 new fo'ou   1  
167 night   1  
203 Seven word info fitu   1  
4 leg/foot va'e   1, 100  
151 green lanumata   1, 12  
44 to hear fanongo   1, 59  
138 warm word info māfana   1, 72  
76 to live, be alive mo'ui L from Tongan 1, 76 L
55 woman/female fafine   1, 106  
79 stick/wood 'akau L from Tongan 1, 26 L
37 to eat kai   1, 47  
100 wing kapakau   1, 59  
136 wind matangi   1, 66  
10 dirty kelekele dirt 10  
65 rope maea   10  
123 to flow tafe   10  
124 sea moana   10  
150 yellow engeenga   10  
48 to sleep moe   10, 109  
2 left hema   11  
13 back word info tu'a   11  
131 cloud word info 'ao   12  
155 long word info loaloa   12, 105  
54 man/male tangata   12, 14  
94 to throw word info tolo   128  
20 to know, be knowledgeable 'ilo   13  
89 to hold word info puke   13  
105 tail hiku   13  
149 red kulokula L from Tongan 13 L
180 far mama'o distant 13  
191 all kātoa   13  
61 house fale   14  
95 to fall word info   14  
112 rotten word info popo   14  
36 to spit 'a'anu   14, 84, 121  
32 tongue 'alelo   15  
51 to sit nofo   16  
164 good lelei   17  
78 to cut, hack word info tu'usi   17, 10?  
30 mouth ngutu   2  
52 to stand tu'u   2  
115 root aka   2  
122 water word info vai   2  
157 thick word info mātolu   3  
26 hair word info fulufulu   31  
26 hair word info fulufulu'i'ulu   31  
172 to climb word info kaka L from Tongan 32 L
140 dry word info pakupaku dry, hard 38  
23 blood toto   4  
120 stone maka rock 4  
142 heavy mamafa   46  
9 to swim kakau   5  
174 in, inside loto inside 5  
206 Ten word info hongofulu L from Tongan 5 L
3 right mata'u   5, 13  
56 child tama male child 6  
59 mother fa'ē   6  
63 name hingoa L from Tongan 6 L
146 ash 'efu'efu L from Tongan 67 L
33 to laugh kata   7  
38 to chew word info lamu   7  
87 to swell word info pula swelling 7  
96 dog kuli   7  
147 black 'uli'uli   7  
49 to lie down word info tokoto L from Tongan 7, 10 L
35 to vomit lua   8  
72 to hit word info tuki   8  
166 correct, true totonu   8  
188 what? word info ā interrogative part. 84  
64 to say lea speak 88  
22 to fear 'ilifia afraid 92  
194 how? word info fiha how many? x  

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