Appendix:Bukitan Swadesh list

This is a Swadesh list of words in Bukitan, compared with definitions in English.

Presentation edit

For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list.

American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.

List edit

No. English Bukitan
Baketan
IPA
pronunciation
1 I hok hoʔ
2 you (singular) ko koʷ
3 he
4 we kai kai
5 you (plural)
6 they
7 this nah nah
8 that tuh tuh
9 here
10 there
11 who hei hei
12 what han han
13 where
14 when
15 how
16 not di di
17 all tagera ta.ɡə.ra
18 many nguat ŋuʷat
19 some
20 few
21 other
22 one jong d͡ʒoŋ
23 two duguoh du.ɡuʷoh
24 three
25 four
26 five
27 big nguai ŋũ.ʷa͡i
28 long ijei i.d͡ʒei
29 wide
30 thick
31 heavy
32 small sik siʔ
33 short
34 narrow
35 thin
36 woman oroh o.roh
37 man (male) alei a.lei
38 man (human) ro ro
39 child
40 wife
41 husband
42 mother
43 father
44 animal
45 fish bajo ba.d͡ʒoʷ
46 bird puret pu.ret
47 dog auh aʷuh
48 louse kutu ku.tu
49 snake
50 worm
51 tree pun pun
52 forest
53 stick
54 fruit
55 seed bah bah
56 leaf daun daun
57 root oka o.ka
58 bark (of a tree) kulit kajuh ku.lit ka.d͡ʒuh
59 flower
60 grass
61 rope
62 skin kulit ku.lit
63 meat isek i.seʔ
64 blood dak daʔ
65 bone tolang to.laŋ
66 fat (noun) menyak mə.ɲaʔ
67 egg talok ta.loʔ
68 horn uong uʷoŋ
69 tail ukoi u.koi
70 feather buluh bu.luh
71 hair lutok lu.toʔ
72 head utek u.teʔ
73 ear bakip ba.kip
74 eye mato ma.to
75 nose urung u.ruŋ
76 mouth bawak ba.waʔ
77 tooth nyipok ɲi.poʔ
78 tongue jalak d͡ʒa.laʔ
79 fingernail ilu i.lu
80 foot butit bu.tit
81 leg
82 knee bukop bu.kop
83 hand tujuk tu.d͡ʒuʔ
84 wing
85 belly owong o.woŋ
86 guts
87 neck puto pu.to
88 back
89 breast uh uh
90 heart puoh puʷoh
91 liver atoi a.toi
92 to drink miup miʲup
93 to eat kamok ka.moʔ
94 to bite nyilet ɲi.let
95 to suck
96 to spit
97 to vomit
98 to blow
99 to breathe
100 to laugh
101 to see ngineng ŋi.neŋ
102 to hear ngeringo ŋə.ri.ŋo
103 to know tuok tuʷoʔ
104 to think
105 to smell
106 to fear
107 to sleep turui tu.rui
108 to live
109 to die kaoh kaʷoh
110 to kill kaok kaʷoʔ
111 to fight
112 to hunt
113 to hit
114 to cut
115 to split
116 to stab
117 to scratch
118 to dig
119 to swim menulong mə.nu.loŋ
120 to fly nulip nu.lip
121 to walk macap ma.t͡ʃap
122 to come labik la.biʔ
123 to lie (as in a bed) merik mə.riʔ
124 to sit muruk mu.ruʔ
125 to stand nenkaring nen.ka.riŋ
126 to turn (intransitive)
127 to fall
128 to give akan a.kan
129 to hold
130 to squeeze
131 to rub
132 to wash
133 to wipe
134 to pull
135 to push
136 to throw
137 to tie
138 to sew
139 to count
140 to say dakut da.kut
141 to sing
142 to play
143 to float
144 to flow
145 to freeze
146 to swell
147 sun mata alo ma.ta a.loʷ
148 moon jungat d͡ʒu.ŋat
149 star latuen la.tuʷen
150 water danum da.num
151 rain lojot lo.d͡ʒot
152 river
153 lake
154 sea
155 salt
156 stone batuh ba.tuh
157 sand barah ba.rah
158 dust
159 earth tanok (soil) ta.noʔ
160 cloud ba'alo baʔaloʷ
161 fog
162 sky
163 wind
164 snow
165 ice
166 smoke tun tun
167 fire apui a.pu͡i
168 ash awu a.wu
169 to burn tapo ta.poʷ
170 road anun a.nun
171 mountain tung tuŋ
172 red arang a.raŋ
173 green hijau hi.d͡ʒa͡u
174 yellow kuning ku.niŋ
175 white buak buʷaʔ
176 black turom tu.rom
177 night malom ma.lom
178 day
179 year
180 warm melauk mə.lauʔ
181 cold manyom ma.ɲom
182 full purok pu.roʔ
183 new uah uʷah
184 old
185 good jan d͡ʒan
186 bad
187 rotten
188 dirty
189 straight
190 round atup a.tup
191 sharp (as a knife)
192 dull (as a knife)
193 smooth
194 wet
195 dry mauh maʷuh
196 correct
197 near
198 far
199 right
200 left
201 at
202 in
203 with
204 and
205 if
206 because
207 name ngerak ŋə.raʔ

See also edit

Bibliography edit

  • Pelompokan Leksikostatistik Bahasa-bahasa Peribumi di Sarawak, Malaysia 2011, →ISBN
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