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Language: Tangga (Feni)

Source/Author:  Wing Wima 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:hrw  Glottocode: anir1237 
Notes:  Non-personal nouns that refer to objects have a prefix of an-/am-/ang- to denote singular.

The plurals will have fan-/fam-/fang-, e.g., angkeltot = a star; fangkeltot = many stars; anman = a bird; fanman = many birds

Possession in person (family) relationships employs suffixes: -ng for the first person (speaker), -am for the second person (listener), -ia/oue third person (subject) singular,-ri third person plural. E.g.: sikuang = my child; sikuam = your child; sikoue = his/her child; sikou = child; tamri = their father; tamam = your father; tamoue = his/her father; tabung = my father(tidung = my mother); paklum = your head; paklung = my head; pakloue = his/her head.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Wing Wima  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
156 thin word info      
158 narrow      
1 hand lima   1, 64  
2 left kais   15  
3 right mil      
4 leg/foot kekou      
5 to walk fes   8  
6 road/path sal   1  
7 to come kasa      
8 to turn word info didiu      
9 to swim kakes   9  
10 dirty edu   68  
11 dust ambaufi      
12 skin ampunu      
13 back word info ampoktou      
14 belly bala   18  
15 bone antou      
16 intestines karbalu      
17 liver ampel      
18 breast ansus   1  
19 shoulder kafliu      
20 to know, be knowledgeable parfat   119  
21 to think sangsang      
22 to fear soke   66  
23 blood dadak   1  
24 head paklu      
25 neck angkongkongou      
26 hair word info ololou   40  
27 nose parnasu   1, 96  
28 to breathe mange   47  
29 to sniff, smell nul      
30 mouth ngusu   2  
31 tooth ngisngisa   24  
32 tongue angkermou   7, 14  
33 to laugh rur      
34 to cry teng   1  
35 to vomit koek   38  
36 to spit kanus   14, 84  
37 to eat en   1  
39 to cook word info tutun   9  
40 to drink inmi   1  
41 to bite kita      
42 to suck doro      
43 ear balbalu   50  
44 to hear ong   1  
45 eye mata   1  
46 to see par   121  
47 to yawn ngaufi   19, 27  
48 to sleep masun   1  
49 to lie down word info ngo      
50 to dream numbil   69  
51 to sit kis   20  
52 to stand ti   2, 69  
53 person/human being kaltu      
54 man/male tamat   12, 14  
55 woman/female fefin   1, 106  
56 child sikou   92  
57 husband matuk      
58 wife wok   98  
59 mother tinou   1  
60 father tamou   1  
61 house fel   14  
62 thatch/roof felun atof   1  
63 name asou   1, 18  
64 to say war   30  
65 rope finau   39  
66 to tie up, fasten kavi      
67 to sew word info soko   56  
69 to hunt word info fesimpul      
70 to shoot word info wana      
71 to stab, pierce taba   47  
72 to hit word info paket      
73 to steal kinau   21  
74 to kill fismet   2, 96  
75 to die, be dead met   1  
76 to live, be alive awawat      
77 to scratch word info kasau      
78 to cut, hack word info poko   56  
79 stick/wood kalut      
80 to split word info paki   88  
81 sharp faen      
82 dull, blunt butuk   1  
83 to work word info faim   45  
84 to plant soso   28  
85 to choose kepfa      
86 to grow word info epol   18  
87 to swell word info ing   56  
88 to squeeze word info pulnga      
89 to hold word info puse      
90 to dig kekef   82  
91 to buy fifil   1  
92 to open, uncover ipki   1  
93 to pound, beat word info tutu   20  
94 to throw word info basini      
95 to fall word info lut   63  
96 dog pul   36  
97 bird man   1  
98 egg katlou   1  
99 feather panman      
100 wing papou   7  
101 to fly of   1  
102 rat kut   3, 63  
103 meat/flesh gemgem      
104 fat/grease giris     L
105 tail angku      
106 snake si   17  
107 worm (earthworm) kulil   39  
109 mosquito mumus   97  
110 spider pupuk      
111 fish kok      
112 rotten word info mapu   1  
113 branch word info telenau      
114 leaf panau   12  
115 root anavwinau      
116 flower purpur   13 L?
117 fruit amfiranau   30  
118 grass garas      
119 earth/soil nal      
120 stone fat   1  
121 sand angkin      
122 water word info dan   1  
123 to flow ring      
124 sea kasap      
124 sea semek      
125 salt semek      
126 lake sun dan      
127 woods/forest balanmok      
128 sky balambat   39  
129 moon funil      
130 star keltot   31  
131 cloud word info pambalbal      
132 fog ambau      
133 rain bat   8  
134 thunder pararak   15  
135 lightning ampil   26  
136 wind kif      
138 warm word info tuntun   12  
139 cold word info mair   1  
140 dry word info mas   11  
141 wet bis   16  
142 heavy mafet   46  
143 fire if   1  
144 to burn word info taif      
145 smoke word info ampuat      
146 ash pif      
147 black mikit   1  
148 white murmur      
149 red bulum      
150 yellow pilpil      
151 green makrau   13, 81  
152 small balik      
153 big bakir      
154 short word info pospos   9  
155 long word info tapak      
157 thick word info punut      
159 wide palpaluk      
160 painful, sick kerker      
161 shy, ashamed meiai      
162 old word info matuk   1  
163 new fu   1  
164 good kausi      
165 bad, evil sak   1  
166 correct, true tikin      
167 night panambing   1  
168 day siat      
169 year matamfaim      
170 when? word info nangis   1, 43  
171 to hide word info finufu   1  
172 to climb word info kanek      
173 at lo   38  
174 in, inside lobala   1  
175 above iat   1  
176 below ifaf   1  
177 this ige      
178 that ilei      
179 near naisa      
180 far tapak   19  
181 where? word info ia   37  
182 I iau   1, 21  
183 thou o   1  
184 he/she i   1  
185 we word info kerer      
185 we word info kemem      
186 you o   s  
187 they ri   25  
188 what? word info sa   1  
189 who? word info se   1  
190 other neng      
191 all nano      
192 and ma   2  
193 if safle      
194 how? word info are      
195 no, not etam      
196 to count wes   10  
197 One word info tike   43  
198 Two word info u   1  
199 Three word info tul   1  
200 Four word info fet   1, 65  
201 Five word info lim   1  
202 Six word info on   1  
203 Seven word info fis   1  
204 Eight word info wal   3  
205 Nine word info siu   5  
206 Ten word info sangful   5  
207 Twenty word info uesangful      
208 Fifty word info limesangful   1, 2  
209 One Hundred word info tike atis   4  
210 One Thousand word info tike mar = '100' ? x  
38 to chew word info ngenges a. 12  
137 to blow word info kif a. 72  
108 louse word info anut b. 1  
137 to blow word info kefif b. 72  
68 needle anil Loan?   L

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