Tereweng
bahasa Tereweng
Tereweng is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Tereweng is an Alor–Pantar language spoken by the Tereweng people on Tereweng Island, southeast of Pantar. This language is especially closely related to Blagar, sometimes considered a dialect of it, or more distantly to Retta.
The speakers number around 1,100, most of whom are multilingual, able to speak Alor Malay and Indonesian. Its speakers are mostly Muslims, especially closely related to the Blagar people.
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Words in Tereweng
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | nEnE* | |
| eye | nEN* | |
| ear | Neweli* | |
| nose | nimiN* | |
| tooth | nEwEhiN* | |
| tongue | nEzEbur* | |
| hand | nataN* | |
| blood | we* | |
| bone | ira* | |
| skin | nE7ulit* | |
| knee | nijakuku* | |
| breast | nE7am* | |
| water | jar* | |
| fire | ad* | |
| sun | wEd3* | |
| star | hid* | |
| stone | war* | |
| mountain | pondo* | |
| tree | tE* | |
| leaf | wa* | |
| night | k3maluN* | |
| dog | Cabar* | |
| fish | ab3* | |
| louse | kubaN* | |
| one | nu* | |
| two | aru* | |
| drink | na* | |
| see | teyN* | |
| die | mina7* | |
| come | ma* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · tere1277 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · twg