Kobon
Kobon is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Kobon (pronounced [xombon], [k͡xombon] or [kʰombon]) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It has somewhere around 90–120 verbs.
Kobon has a pandanus language, spoken when harvesting karuka.
From Wikipedia · Kobon language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kobon
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | b3* | |
| name | himp* | |
| eye | amg3* | |
| ear | r3m3nt* | |
| nose | mulu* | |
| tooth | meNk* | |
| tongue | aLamp* | |
| hand | 5imax3* | |
| blood | haxape* | |
| bone | le* | |
| skin | ha5* | |
| knee | xuxom* | |
| breast | Ci* | |
| liver | yima5iN* | |
| water | 5iNk* | |
| fire | mamp* | |
| sun | sid3* | |
| star | gab3* | |
| stone | xab3* | |
| mountain | n3il3* | |
| tree | mamp* | |
| leaf | x3p* | |
| night | hil3m* | |
| dog | xain* | |
| fish | yajoi* | |
| louse | man* | |
| one | a53* | |
| two | m3h3p* | |
| I | yant* | |
| we | hon* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · kobo1249 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kpw