Taiap

Taiap is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it moribund.

Taiap · 4.0°S 144.5°E

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Tayap (also spelled Taiap; called Gapun in earlier literature, after the name of the village in which it is spoken) is an endangered Papuan language spoken by fewer than 50 people in Gapun village of Marienberg Rural LLG in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (4.028746°S 144.50304°E / -4.028746; 144.50304 (Gapun), located just to the south of the Sepik River mouth near the coast). It is being replaced by the national language and lingua franca Tok Pisin.

From Wikipedia · Tayap language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Taiap

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	munje*
name	nomb*
eye	Ngino*
ear	neke*
nose	raw*
tooth	rewi*
tongue	malit*
hand	ndaram*
blood	and*
bone	n3Ng*
skin	toto*
knee	m3Ng3p*
breast	min*
liver	wu*
water	awin*
fire	otar*
sun	arawer*
star	Ngudum*
stone	moNar*
mountain	tumb*
tree	n3m*
leaf	mayar*
night	ikur*
dog	nje*
fish	Ngomar*
louse	pak3nd*
one	nambar*
two	sene*
I	Na*
you	yu*