Reta
bahasa Retta
Reta is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Retta (also called Reta) is a Papuan language spoken on Pura and Ternate islands, located between Pantar and Alor in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. It is spoken by a few thousand people, and is considered an endangered language by Ethnologue.
It is not related to but not mutually intelligible with Blagar, which is spoken on the north side of Pura Island, and is unrelated to the Austronesian language Alorese, which is spoken on the north side of Ternate. One of its most distinctive features is a morphophonological process where some words can be intensified or made vulgar by replacing an /l/ sound with an [r] sound.
From Wikipedia · Retta language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Reta
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | naneh* | |
| eye | nEN* | |
| ear | nawEli* | |
| nose | namiyaN* | |
| tooth | nawEhaN* | |
| tongue | najabur* | |
| hand | nataN* | |
| blood | nave* | |
| bone | tala* | |
| skin | nabual* | |
| knee | niyakabuN* | |
| breast | nakono* | |
| water | jial | |
| fire | ad* | |
| sun | vit* | |
| star | id* | |
| stone | vaal | |
| mountain | adual* | |
| tree | te* | |
| leaf | vEl* | |
| night | kakuwa* | |
| dog | jobal* | |
| fish | ab* | |
| louse | baN* | |
| one | anu* | |
| two | alow* | |
| drink | na* | |
| see | uliN* | |
| die | amina* | |
| come | ma* |
* 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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Glottolog · rett1240 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ret