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Kéo

Kéo is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, by about 40 thousand people.

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Kéo · 8.9°S 121.3°E

Kéo or Nagé-Kéo is a Malayo-Polynesian dialect cluster spoken by the Kéo (ʼata Kéo) and the Nage peoples that reside in an area southeast of the Ebulobo volcano in the south-central part of Nusa Tenggara Timur Province on the island of Flores, eastern Indonesia, largely in the eponymous Nagekeo Regency.

Kéo belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata subgroups of the Austronesian language family and there are approximately 40,000 speakers.

Kéo is sometimes referred to as Nage-Kéo, Nage being the name of a neighboring ethnic group that is generally considered culturally distinct from Kéo; however, whether or not the two languages are separate entities is ambivalent.

From Wikipedia · Kéo language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Kéo

MeaningWordRomanization
personata*
nameNara*
eyedi7emata*
eariNa*
noseiru*
toothNi7i*
tonguedema*
handpambadima*
bloodla*
bonetoko*
skinu7i*
kneeudutu*
liverate*
waterae*
fireapi*
sundera*
starndada*
stonewatu*
mountainkedi*
treedo*
nightkombe*
dogdako*
fishika*
oneha*
twoesarua*
INa7o*
youkau*
wekita*
drinkminu*
seeila*

* 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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