Teiwa
bahasa Tewa
Teiwa is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Teiwa (also referred to as Tewa) is a Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia. The island is the second largest in the Alor archipelago, lying just west of the largest island Alor.
Teiwa is a morphosyntactically simple language with little inflection and is as such described as an isolating language, also known as an analytic language. It is pronounced by a complex pronoun system.
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Words in Teiwa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | uy* | |
| name | it* | |
| eye | gat* | |
| ear | guworwo7* | |
| nose | g3vimbui* | |
| tooth | gusan* | |
| tongue | g3livi* | |
| hand | g3tan* | |
| blood | woi* | |
| bone | kir* | |
| skin | kuwoi* | |
| knee | g3fatku7* | |
| breast | Xom* | |
| liver | gom* | |
| water | yir | |
| fire | Xar* | |
| sun | worgat* | |
| star | if* | |
| stone | wor* | |
| mountain | uian* | |
| tree | har* | |
| leaf | taiwa7* | |
| night | iqa7an* | |
| dog | ivar* | |
| fish | Xof* | |
| louse | ku7an* | |
| one | nuk* | |
| two | roq* | |
| I | na7an* | |
| you | ha7an* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- KaeraTimor-Alor-Pantar31% alike
- NedebangTimor-Alor-Pantar24% alike
- KlonTimor-Alor-Pantar18% alike
- Kui (Indonesia)Timor-Alor-Pantar18% alike
- Western PantarTimor-Alor-Pantar17% alike
- TerewengTimor-Alor-Pantar16% alike
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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