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Kâte

Kâte is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

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Kâte · 6.5°S 147.8°E

Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Finisterre–Huon branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family (McElhanon 1975, Ross 2005). It was adopted for teaching and mission work among speakers of Papuan languages by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and at one time had as many as 80,000 second-language speakers.

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Words in Kâte

MeaningWordRomanization
personNi7*
namecoNe*
eyecoNe*
earhace7*
nosesoke*
toothmi7*
tonguenameN*
handme*
bloodso7*
bonesie7*
skinsaha7*
kneedieN*
breastmoN*
liverbugopo7*
wateropâ
fireco7*
suncoaN*
starbopiN*
stonekpono*
mountaintiki*
treeyo7*
leafreha7*
nightNafe*
dogkpoto*
louseimeN*
onemoyaha*
twoyayahe7*
Ino*
yougo*
wenoNo7*

* 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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