Western Ong-Be
Western Ong-Be is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in China.
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Be (native pronunciation: [ʔɑŋ˧ɓe˧]), also known as Ong Be, Bê, or Vo Limgao (Chinese: 臨高話; pinyin: Lín'gāohuà), is a pair of languages spoken by 600,000 people, 100,000 of them monolingual, on the north-central coast of Hainan Island, including the suburbs of the provincial capital Haikou. The speakers are counted as part of the Han Chinese nationality in census. According to Ethnologue, it is taught in primary schools.
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Words in Western Ong-Be
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | leNhun* | |
| name | noi* | |
| eye | da¹ | |
| ear | sa* | |
| nose | loN* | |
| tooth | tin* | |
| tongue | lin* | |
| hand | mo* | |
| blood | ba7* | |
| bone | ua7* | |
| skin | naN* | |
| knee | haukau* | |
| breast | no7* | |
| liver | dop* | |
| water | nam⁴ | |
| fire | v3i* | |
| sun | dav3n* | |
| star | l3ksai* | |
| rain | fun¹ | |
| stone | din* | |
| mountain | saN* | |
| tree | dun* | |
| leaf | bodun* | |
| night | dakom* | |
| dog | ma* | |
| fish | ba* | |
| one | it* | |
| two | Ni* | |
| I | hau* | |
| you | m3* |
* 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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