Dumbea
Dumbea is an Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Ndrumbea, variously spelled Dumbea, Ndumbea, Dubea, Drubea and Païta, is a New Caledonian language that gave its name to the capital of New Caledonia, Nouméa, and the neighboring town of Dumbéa; it is also spoken in the nearby region of Païta. It however has been displaced to villages outside the capital, with fewer than a thousand speakers remaining. Gordon (1995) estimates that there may only be two or three hundred. The Dubea are the people; the language has been called Naa Dubea (or more precisely Ṇã́ã Ṇḍùmbea) "language of Dubea".
Ndrumbea is one of the few Austronesian languages that is tonal, and it has a series of consonants that are also unusual for the region.
From Wikipedia · Ndrumbea language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Dumbea
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| ear | wEne* | |
| hand | mi* | |
| blood | tE* | |
| liver | Te* | |
| water | co | |
| fire | ta* | |
| sun | Ti* | |
| star | veo* | |
| stone | vu* | |
| mountain | gwE* | |
| tree | go* | |
| night | mwErE* | |
| fish | be* | |
| louse | xi* | |
| two | p3ru* | |
| you | ki* | |
| drink | kwi* | |
| see | toa* | |
| come | veme* | |
| new | bErE* | |
| full | we* |
* 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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Elsewhere
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