Bungku
Bungku is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Bungku is an Austronesian language (one of the Celebic languages) spoken by the Bungku people of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is quite close to Wawonii. It was a local lingua franca before independence.
From Wikipedia · Bungku language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Bungku
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mia* | |
| name | Ne* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | biri* | |
| nose | eNe* | |
| tooth | Nisi* | |
| tongue | elo* | |
| hand | lima* | |
| blood | rea* | |
| bone | buku* | |
| skin | balula* | |
| breast | susu* | |
| liver | ate* | |
| water | baho | |
| fire | api* | |
| star | anabula* | |
| rain | usa | |
| stone | baCu* | |
| leaf | lebe* | |
| night | malo* | |
| dog | dahu* | |
| fish | ika* | |
| louse | kuCu* | |
| one | asao* | |
| two | orua* | |
| I | oNkude* | |
| you | omunde* | |
| we | ontade* | |
| drink | mo7enu* | |
| see | mo7unto* |
* 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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