Taulil
Taulil is a Taulil-Butam language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Taulil is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
It is spoken in Kadaulung village of (4.452603°S 152.118398°E / -4.452603; 152.118398 (Kadaulung N0.2)) of Inland Baining Rural LLG, and in Taulil 1 (4.413301°S 152.092147°E / -4.413301; 152.092147 (Taulil No.1)) and Taulil 2 (4.419937°S 152.087372°E / -4.419937; 152.087372 (Taulil No.2)) villages of Vunadidir/Toma Rural LLG.
Butam (now extinct) is related. Like the Butam, the Taulil people trace their ancestry to New Ireland.
From Wikipedia · Taulil language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Taulil
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | molimoli* | |
| name | it3n* | |
| eye | umi* | |
| ear | t3m3k* | |
| nose | k3lom* | |
| tooth | rat3n* | |
| tongue | kud3m* | |
| hand | id3nok* | |
| blood | k3b3r3k* | |
| bone | ton* | |
| skin | v3t3* | |
| knee | tuk3m* | |
| breast | um3k* | |
| liver | b3lb3l* | |
| water | ioi* | |
| fire | turin* | |
| sun | v3nu* | |
| star | k3l3v3N3n* | |
| stone | tiv3n* | |
| mountain | b3r3n* | |
| tree | naN* | |
| leaf | naNboi* | |
| night | vula* | |
| dog | k3vop* | |
| fish | a7en* | |
| one | t3g3ta* | |
| two | muk3m* | |
| I | NaN* | |
| you | NiN* | |
| we | udu* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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