Nai
Nai is a Kwomtari-Nai language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea.
Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as Biaka) was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the Fas language Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.)
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Words in Nai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ndapway* | |
| eye | wo* | |
| ear | winumbo* | |
| nose | tapokli* | |
| tooth | n3likuli* | |
| tongue | reiro* | |
| hand | ame* | |
| blood | nyEp3* | |
| bone | kwuriro* | |
| skin | awero* | |
| knee | domrokuli* | |
| breast | totu* | |
| liver | ariro* | |
| water | wane* | |
| fire | yei* | |
| sun | ndio* | |
| star | mopli* | |
| stone | mbini* | |
| mountain | popo* | |
| tree | kau* | |
| leaf | yamo* | |
| night | mbuxato* | |
| dog | mau* | |
| fish | akrei* | |
| louse | yipi* | |
| one | mwamE* | |
| two | ar3paro* | |
| I | nombwir3* | |
| you | wana* | |
| we | mon3* |
* 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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