Kazukuru
Kazukuru was an Austronesian language once spoken in Solomon Islands.
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Kazukuru is an extinct language that was once spoken in New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The Dororo and Guliguli languages, if not spurious, were transcriptional variants, dialects, or closely related. The speakers of Kazukuru gradually merged with the Roviana people from the sixteenth century onward and adopted Roviana as their language. Kazukuru was last recorded in the early twentieth century when its speakers were in the last stages of language shift. Today, Kazukuru is the name of a clan in the Roviana people group.
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Words in Kazukuru
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | zeponi* | |
| eye | meta* | |
| ear | Ninoia* | |
| nose | suNu* | |
| tooth | titio* | |
| tongue | lepani* | |
| hand | vonili* | |
| blood | rinati* | |
| bone | sinori* | |
| breast | suno* | |
| liver | tobe* | |
| water | kiloni* | |
| fire | hikani* | |
| stone | pitoni* | |
| leaf | piloi* | |
| night | muni* | |
| dog | pilipuo* | |
| fish | mesai* | |
| one | nasata* | |
| two | runaruna* | |
| I | rauno* | |
| you | goino* | |
| we | Ngito* | |
| drink | nipo* | |
| see | sino* | |
| hear | inogo* | |
| die | minata* | |
| come | emo* | |
| path | ritani* |
* 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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