Biak
Biak is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Biak (wós Vyak or 'Biak language'; wós kovedi or 'our language'; Indonesian: bahasa Biak), also known as Biak-Numfor, Noefoor, Mafoor, Mefoor, Nufoor, Mafoorsch, Myfoorsch and Noefoorsch, is an Austronesian language of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup of the Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages.
According to Ethnologue, it is spoken by about 70,000 people in Biak and Numfor and numerous small islands in the Schouten Islands, located in Papua province of Western New Guinea, northeastern Indonesia.
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Words in Biak
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ina | |
| woman | bin | |
| person | snonkaku* | |
| name | snonsnon* | |
| eye | mka* | |
| ear | kna* | |
| nose | snoni* | |
| tooth | na* | |
| tongue | ramar* | |
| hand | vra* | |
| blood | rik* | |
| bone | kor* | |
| skin | kif* | |
| knee | wepur* | |
| breast | sus* | |
| liver | barmor* | |
| water | u'ar | |
| fire | for* | |
| sun | or* | |
| star | mak* | |
| stone | karu* | |
| mountain | bon* | |
| tree | ai* | |
| leaf | ram* | |
| night | rov* | |
| dog | rofan* | |
| fish | in* | |
| louse | wuk* | |
| one | eser* | |
| two | suru* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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