Iaai
Iaai is an Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: [jaːi], YAH-ee) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia). It shares the island of Ouvéa with Fagauvea, a Polynesian outlier language.
Iaai is the sixth-most-spoken language of New Caledonia, with 4,078 speakers as of 2009. It is taught in schools in an effort to preserve it.
The language has been studied by linguists Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre and Anne-Laure Dotte.
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Words in Iaai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | at* | |
| name | ye* | |
| eye | mEk* | |
| ear | k35e* | |
| nose | h5iN3i5* | |
| tooth | 5u* | |
| tongue | hme* | |
| hand | be5i* | |
| blood | dra* | |
| bone | j3* | |
| skin | une* | |
| breast | si* | |
| liver | ak* | |
| water | köiö | |
| fire | meiC* | |
| star | oxyi* | |
| stone | veto* | |
| tree | ûöö | |
| leaf | la* | |
| night | h5iNetr* | |
| dog | kuli* | |
| fish | wo* | |
| louse | uto* | |
| one | xaCa* | |
| two | lo* | |
| I | i5a* | |
| you | au* | |
| we | 3tin* | |
| drink | iC* | |
| see | wo* |
* 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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