Marind
Marind is an Anim language spoken in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, by about 7,000 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Marind is a Papuan language spoken in Malind District, Merauke Regency, Indonesia by over ten thousand people. Dialects are Southeast Marind, Gawir, Holifoersch, and Tugeri. Bian Marind (Northwest Marind), also known as Boven-Mbian, is divergent enough to not be mutually intelligible, and has been assigned a separate ISO code.
Marind separates the Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages, which would otherwise occupy a nearly continuous stretch of southern New Guinea.
From Wikipedia · Marind language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Marind
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | anim* | |
| name | igih* | |
| eye | kin* | |
| ear | kambet* | |
| nose | aNgip* | |
| tooth | maNgat* | |
| tongue | unum* | |
| hand | saNga* | |
| blood | do* | |
| bone | hayaw* | |
| skin | ugu* | |
| knee | mig* | |
| breast | bub* | |
| liver | on* | |
| water | adaka* | |
| fire | takah* | |
| sun | katane* | |
| star | ohom* | |
| stone | katal* | |
| tree | de* | |
| leaf | Ngol* | |
| night | xap* | |
| dog | Ngat* | |
| fish | awe* | |
| louse | mbam* | |
| one | yakod* | |
| two | inah* | |
| I | nok* | |
| you | ox* | |
| we | nok* |
* 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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