Kui (Indonesia)
bahasa Kui
Kui (Indonesia) is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Kui is a Timor–Alor–Pantar language spoken in several enclaves on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The language is called masin lak in Kui. Although the exact number of speakers is unknown, Kui is an endangered language since speakers are shifting to Alor Malay.
Kui is mainly spoken in the towns of Moru, Bouraga and Lerabarang. Kirramung and Kui have some sort of dialect relationship, being considered by some as being the same language and some others as being two different languages. This is typical of Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) languages. It has verb-final word order which means that the verb comes last in a sentence, unlike in English where the verb usually comes in the middle.
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Words in Kui (Indonesia)
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | inok* | |
| name | 3nai* | |
| eye | gan* | |
| ear | 3walki* | |
| nose | amin* | |
| tooth | 3wes* | |
| tongue | alib3r* | |
| hand | 3tan* | |
| blood | wa* | |
| bone | tropa* | |
| skin | 3kul* | |
| knee | ailuktu* | |
| breast | asu* | |
| liver | x3kakalal* | |
| fire | ar* | |
| sun | bar* | |
| star | ibara* | |
| stone | wor* | |
| mountain | dol* | |
| tree | 3taiyara* | |
| leaf | 3taidat* | |
| night | 3k3n* | |
| dog | kur* | |
| fish | ab* | |
| louse | kon* | |
| one | nuku* | |
| two | 3roko* | |
| you | nai* | |
| we | Tai* | |
| drink | nai* |
* 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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