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

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