Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is an Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.
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Northeast Malakula, or Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin, is a dialect chain spoken on the islands of Uripiv, Wala, Rano, and Atchin and on the mainland opposite to these islands. Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin is spoken today by about 9,000 people. Literacy rate of its speakers in their own language is 10–30%.
Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin forms a dialect chain. The Uripiv dialect is the most southerly of these and has 85% of its words in common with Atchin, the most northerly dialect. Uripiv is spoken on the north-east coast of Malakula.
The Uripiv dialect is one of the few documented languages that use the rare bilabial trill, a feature that is not found in the Atchin dialect.
From Wikipedia · Northeast Malakula language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | cnEmb* | |
| name | se* | |
| eye | mte* | |
| ear | mboro* | |
| nose | Ngunsi* | |
| tooth | lwo* | |
| tongue | me* | |
| hand | bre* | |
| blood | ra* | |
| bone | ci* | |
| skin | blibli* | |
| knee | mbwa7u* | |
| breast | su* | |
| liver | re* | |
| water | wo* | |
| fire | amb* | |
| sun | al* | |
| star | mcE* | |
| stone | bet* | |
| mountain | mbutuan* | |
| leaf | ro7in* | |
| night | natmupuN* | |
| dog | Ngili* | |
| fish | msal* | |
| louse | tum* | |
| one | etes* | |
| two | ru* | |
| I | nio* | |
| you | nik* | |
| we | kir* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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