Apatani English

[adĩ dĩɉi] n. black hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aha ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alaɁ laɁpù] n. fist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amiɁ miɁtĩ] n. eyelid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bãbã] adj. heavy or hoarse voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɉé bɨɉé] adj. many; in large numbers; profuse; copious

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

Dialect: ant. twgò, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cicĩ] n. loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daareɁ reɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. da’re’ke, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨdɨɁ] adj. poisonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨrã-sãxã] n. a variety of edible berries

Dialect: syn. saanci, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaga] adj. quarrelsome

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaso haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiɉi kɨna] adj. bluish

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiɉĩ tajĩ] n. a kind of dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉĩko ɉĩko] adj. lanky; tall and thin

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karpo-popi alo] n. Saturday

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁroɁ] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lalala] conj. then; and then

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁbeɁ] v. flap (wings) with helplessness

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[liɁkiɁ-liɁko] adv. showy; flirty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjamja] n. ringworm

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjamja pɨro] n. plated bamboo basket for storing the myamya brass plate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nunuka] pron. your (plural)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunumi] pron. you (plural); second person plural pronoun, accusative case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɲiɁ aɲiɁ] n. small rice grains that remain after sieving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilã rãbã] adj. yellowish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poli-poli] adv. rapidly; swiftly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjarpjaɁ] v. unfold

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxã] n. border post

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxã] n. rubber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sosiɁ-sosiɁ] adv. in a line; one after the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tano-gogo] n. snail

Dialect: var. tano gorgo, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tano-gorgo] n. snail

Dialect: var. tano-gogo, Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taja rara] adj. quite; deserted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tutu nanu] n. bumble bee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁli tɨɁli] adv. frequently; again and again; over and over again

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xãxã-dɨrã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

Dialect: syn. xañxañ, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁɲaɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

Dialect: syn. za’zo’, Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ákó-ákó] pron. one by one; one after the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno