Saliba
Saliba is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Saliba is an Oceanic language spoken on the islets off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 2,500 speakers of Saliba. Significant documentation of the language was undertaken by the Saliba-Logea documentation project, and hundreds of audio-video resources can be found in the project archive.
From Wikipedia · Saliba language (Papua New Guinea) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Saliba
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | tamowai* | |
| name | hesa* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | beya* | |
| nose | isu* | |
| tooth | kawa* | |
| tongue | memena* | |
| hand | nima* | |
| blood | kwasina* | |
| bone | siyada* | |
| skin | dahi* | |
| breast | susu* | |
| liver | kate* | |
| water | waira | |
| fire | kaiwa* | |
| star | kipwala* | |
| stone | weku* | |
| leaf | lugu* | |
| night | boni* | |
| dog | kedewa* | |
| fish | yama* | |
| louse | tuma* | |
| one | kesega* | |
| two | labui* | |
| I | yau* | |
| you | kowa* | |
| we | kita* | |
| drink | numa* | |
| see | kita* | |
| hear | lapui* |
* 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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