Uneapa
Uneapa is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Uneapa (often called "Bali", natively Uniapa) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 10,000 people on the small island of Bali (Uneapa), north of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It is perhaps a dialect of neighboring Vitu. Uneapa is one of the most conservative Oceanic languages, having retained most of Proto-Oceanic's final consonants with an echo vowel, such as *Rumaq 'house' > rumaka and *saqat 'bad' > zaɣata.
A sketch grammar of this language was published in 2002 by Malcolm Ross.
From Wikipedia · Uneapa language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Uneapa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | tavine | |
| person | tamaxane* | |
| name | iza* | |
| eye | mata* | |
| ear | taliNa* | |
| nose | iru* | |
| tooth | xale* | |
| tongue | tambela* | |
| hand | lima* | |
| blood | topo* | |
| bone | riri* | |
| skin | xulita* | |
| breast | zuzu* | |
| water | maliuku* | |
| fire | baritunu* | |
| sun | voroto* | |
| star | vitovito* | |
| stone | vatu* | |
| mountain | loto* | |
| tree | xai* | |
| leaf | rauna* | |
| night | mariNgomo* | |
| dog | akauaka* | |
| fish | ixaNa* | |
| louse | bonu* | |
| one | katiku* | |
| two | terua* | |
| I | xau* | |
| you | oxo* | |
| we | xita* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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