Berik
bahasa Sewan Teteris
Berik is a Tor-Orya language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Berik (Sewan) is a Papuan language spoken in Indonesia. Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor River, in Sarmi Regency, Papua Province.
US linguist John McWhorter cited Berik as an example of a language which puts concepts "together in ways more fascinatingly different from English than most of us are aware". Illustrating this, in the phrase Kitobana (meaning "[he] gives three large objects to a male in the sunlight"), affixes indicating time of day, object number, object size, and gender of recipient are added to the verb.
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Words in Berik
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | aNtane* | |
| name | bosna* | |
| eye | nue* | |
| ear | imwa* | |
| nose | mase* | |
| tooth | ol* | |
| tongue | maflam* | |
| hand | tafa* | |
| blood | awis* | |
| bone | alna* | |
| skin | tifin* | |
| knee | saman* | |
| breast | mom* | |
| liver | i* | |
| water | fo | |
| fire | tokwa* | |
| sun | gwer* | |
| star | torbon* | |
| stone | ton* | |
| mountain | taren* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | tiala* | |
| night | gwin* | |
| dog | gwala* | |
| fish | jigal* | |
| louse | nena* | |
| one | danfena* | |
| two | naura* | |
| I | ai* | |
| you | aame* |
* 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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