Kâte
Kâte is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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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
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | Ni7* | |
| name | coNe* | |
| eye | coNe* | |
| ear | hace7* | |
| nose | soke* | |
| tooth | mi7* | |
| tongue | nameN* | |
| hand | me* | |
| blood | so7* | |
| bone | sie7* | |
| skin | saha7* | |
| knee | dieN* | |
| breast | moN* | |
| liver | bugopo7* | |
| water | opâ | |
| fire | co7* | |
| sun | coaN* | |
| star | bopiN* | |
| stone | kpono* | |
| mountain | tiki* | |
| tree | yo7* | |
| leaf | reha7* | |
| night | Nafe* | |
| dog | kpoto* | |
| louse | imeN* | |
| one | moyaha* | |
| two | yayahe7* | |
| I | no* | |
| you | go* | |
| we | noNo7* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- MapeNuclear Trans New Guinea42% alike
- MigabacNuclear Trans New Guinea29% alike
- DeduaNuclear Trans New Guinea26% alike
- BorongNuclear Trans New Guinea15% alike
- Kulungtfu-Yuanggeng-ToboNuclear Trans New Guinea15% alike
- Madi (Papua New Guinea)Nuclear Trans New Guinea14% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · kate1253 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kmg