Pom
bahasa Pom
Pom is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Pom is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Miosnum Island in Cenderawasih Bay west of Serui Island, in Papua Province of Western New Guinea, northeastern Indonesia. It has around 2000 speakers. This wordlist was recorded by Emily Gasser with Pom speakers Yanselt Borotabui, Spenyei Awendu, Frengky Mantundoi, Frence Kapitaray, and Memase Kadwaru on the Unipa campus in Manokwari in June/July 2016.
Serewen is a dialect.
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Words in Pom
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mawan* | |
| name | sano* | |
| eye | tandemo* | |
| ear | taradyau* | |
| nose | hokama* | |
| tooth | die* | |
| tongue | uatanden* | |
| hand | bwara* | |
| blood | maro* | |
| bone | hina* | |
| skin | rerawa* | |
| knee | bu* | |
| breast | huhu* | |
| water | dia | |
| fire | arutan* | |
| sun | wo* | |
| star | piori* | |
| stone | kami* | |
| mountain | tabui* | |
| tree | ai* | |
| leaf | rau* | |
| night | rovi* | |
| fish | dian* | |
| louse | utu* | |
| one | risi* | |
| two | iru* | |
| I | iau* | |
| you | au* | |
| we | tatoru* | |
| drink | unu* |
* 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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