Manggarai
bahasa Manggarai
Manggarai is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, by about 900 thousand people.
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The Manggarai language (tombo Manggarai, Indonesian: bahasa Manggarai) is the language of the Manggarai people from the western parts of the island of Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.
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Words in Manggarai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | iné-wai | |
| person | ata* | |
| name | NasaN* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | tilu* | |
| nose | isuN* | |
| tooth | Nis* | |
| tongue | lema* | |
| hand | lime* | |
| blood | dara* | |
| bone | toko* | |
| skin | loke* | |
| breast | CuCu* | |
| liver | ati* | |
| water | waé | |
| fire | api* | |
| star | ntala* | |
| rain | usang | |
| stone | watu* | |
| tree | haju* | |
| leaf | sauN* | |
| night | wie* | |
| dog | aCu* | |
| fish | ikaN* | |
| horse | jarang | |
| louse | utu* | |
| one | Ca* | |
| two | sua* | |
| I | aku* | |
| you | hau* |
* 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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