Lala
Lala is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Lala, Nara, or Pokau is an Austronesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. This language is spoken in the villages of Oloi, Diumana, Ala'ala, Tubu, Kaiau and Vanuamae. A count in 2017 showed there to be about 3000 speakers with a current language status of developing, meaning that the language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some.
According to Ethnologue the Lala language shares a 57% lexical similarity with the Toura language, and 47% with the Abadi language.
From Wikipedia · Lala language (Papua New Guinea) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Lala
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | iava* | |
| eye | maka* | |
| ear | kaia* | |
| nose | idu* | |
| tooth | nike* | |
| tongue | mala* | |
| hand | ima* | |
| blood | lala* | |
| bone | kulia* | |
| skin | ava* | |
| breast | bae* | |
| liver | ake* | |
| water | vei | |
| fire | oloa* | |
| star | visiu* | |
| stone | bika7a* | |
| leaf | vela* | |
| night | boniai* | |
| dog | oveka* | |
| fish | sisi* | |
| louse | uku* | |
| one | ka* | |
| two | lu7a* | |
| I | lau* | |
| we | ita* | |
| drink | inuinu* | |
| see | eikala* | |
| hear | eika* | |
| die | ebaba* | |
| come | e7asi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · lala1268 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · nrz