Batuley
bahasa Batuley
Batuley is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Batuley (Gwatle lir) is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Mariri. Hughes (1987) estimates that around 80% of lexical items are shared. The language's name comes from the Gwatle island (Batuley in Indonesian), which the Batuley consider their homeland (Daigle (2015)).
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Words in Batuley
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | tamata* | |
| name | Naran* | |
| eye | mat* | |
| ear | tager* | |
| nose | jurin* | |
| tooth | neyen* | |
| tongue | kabeler* | |
| hand | lim* | |
| blood | gun* | |
| bone | tuil* | |
| skin | kalei* | |
| knee | kada* | |
| breast | ban* | |
| liver | at* | |
| water | gwajor* | |
| fire | jekei* | |
| sun | lara* | |
| star | taon* | |
| stone | kum* | |
| mountain | fugar* | |
| tree | kei* | |
| leaf | raun* | |
| night | fis* | |
| dog | tara* | |
| fish | jig* | |
| louse | kut* | |
| one | et* | |
| two | ru* | |
| I | aN* | |
| you | kaig* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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