Tauya
Tauya is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Tauya (also Inafosa) is a Rai Coast language spoken in the Ramu River valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 350 people.
The Linguistics Department at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, has Tauya language resources.
From Wikipedia · Tauya language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Tauya
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | fanu* | |
| name | wanimo* | |
| eye | a7e* | |
| ear | 7wa7i* | |
| nose | ute* | |
| tooth | ma7a* | |
| tongue | sipini* | |
| hand | potiya* | |
| blood | inao* | |
| bone | esei* | |
| skin | tiya* | |
| knee | ota* | |
| breast | mimi* | |
| liver | ama | |
| water | ya'e | |
| fire | o7o* | |
| sun | yenimo* | |
| star | pene* | |
| wind | yei | |
| stone | sene* | |
| mountain | i7emo* | |
| tree | amo* | |
| leaf | wemo | |
| night | 7weisa* | |
| dog | mamo* | |
| fish | yau* | |
| louse | mi* | |
| one | 7afana* | |
| two | awi* | |
| I | ya* |
* 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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Elsewhere
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