Tigak
Tigak is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
From Wikipedia · Tigak language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Tigak
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | vap* | |
| name | asan* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | talaNa* | |
| nose | isu* | |
| tooth | Nisa* | |
| tongue | kalama* | |
| hand | mit* | |
| blood | tiliN* | |
| bone | tuan* | |
| skin | pinpin* | |
| breast | sut* | |
| liver | at* | |
| water | rurum* | |
| fire | ata* | |
| star | kalto* | |
| stone | liaN* | |
| leaf | pak* | |
| night | vuN* | |
| dog | piu* | |
| fish | ien* | |
| louse | Nut* | |
| one | sakai* | |
| two | uak* | |
| I | nak* | |
| you | nuk* | |
| we | kara* | |
| drink | inum* | |
| see | tarai* | |
| hear | loNani* |
* 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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