Kéo
Kéo is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, by about 40 thousand people.
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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.
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Words in Kéo
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ata* | |
| name | Nara* | |
| eye | di7emata* | |
| ear | iNa* | |
| nose | iru* | |
| tooth | Ni7i* | |
| tongue | dema* | |
| hand | pambadima* | |
| blood | la* | |
| bone | toko* | |
| skin | u7i* | |
| knee | udutu* | |
| liver | ate* | |
| water | ae* | |
| fire | api* | |
| sun | dera* | |
| star | ndada* | |
| stone | watu* | |
| mountain | kedi* | |
| tree | do* | |
| night | kombe* | |
| dog | dako* | |
| fish | ika* | |
| one | ha* | |
| two | esarua* | |
| I | Na7o* | |
| you | kau* | |
| we | kita* | |
| drink | minu* | |
| see | ila* |
* 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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