Apatani English

[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-baró

[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

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[aʎeɁ] n. door

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[aʎĩ] adj. smart; bright; savvy

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[aɉĩ] n. friend; company; mate

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[aroɁ paco] int. expression of happiness; thank you

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arì] v. demarcate; delimit; delineate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[auɁ gɨgjá] n. waist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ sáa] v. have loose motion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. axw har

[axóo] n. stalk; stem

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bum] n. bomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[buŋa] v. crowd; gather; congregate; swarm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdã daaraɁ] n. stiff cliff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨʎo] n. yesterday

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[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaakã] n. space underneath the house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dãxo] n. long sharp stick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

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[ẽtɨ jagɨ] n. medium sized cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gi] v. operate a hinged door

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[guɁ] v. hatch; sit on or brood eggs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[harbaɁ] v. hug; embrace

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harkó] v. bore a hole

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[hẽxɨ] adj. scarce; meager; in short supply

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. heñxw-miliñ

[hibu] n. beak

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨnɨ] n. cow

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háatɨ] adj. hopeful; confident; optimistic

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hùuʎiɁ] n. fat; oil

Speaker: Nani Anga

[icuce] pron. a small amount; a small number; not many

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[itú pumĩ] n. a variety of small dragonfly

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉãda] n. flag

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉoɉǝr] n. green june beetle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kami] prep. at the back; after; rear of

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Dialect: syn. kokañ

[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kanuda] n. in five days; five days hence

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[kapeɁ] adj. transparent; translucent; obvious; evident

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Dialect: syn. kape’-kase’

[karpo-popi alo] n. Saturday

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[koʎã] adj. round

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[kone] num. one

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[kooxeɁ alló] n. ilium bone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kubu] n. rat; mouse

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kursi] n. chair

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kɨlĩ] pron. whatever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁsĩ] n. forearm

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[leɁra] n. cane havershack

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lobú-lomè] n. components of a loom

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[ludǝr] v. elucidate; explain; interpret; explicate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luxá] v. retort; riposte; dare; challenge verbally

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maã] v. creep; grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches (as creepers do)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[martul] n. hammer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mã] v. finish a building; put roof on a building

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁtĩ amu] v. eyebrow

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[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[mixɨ ronɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mixw runw

[mokaɁ] adj. sunken (as of face)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: etym. zi’mo (face) + paka’ (dent)

[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

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[paa] v. find (esp. by chance or luck); stumble on; chance on

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[paʎoɁ] adj. bent; not straight; inclined

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Dialect: syn. pafa

[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pamjo-taxo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo

[pike] n. a spicy traditional dish

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[poŋe] adj. different

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[potũ] n. witness in a business transaction

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨnã] n. rice husk

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. empw

[rǝǝ] letter name r the letter representing r in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[raabúu] n. hollow

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[rɨpu] n. silver

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. rupu

[saha] n. cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. swha

[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[sẽsɨɁ] adj. dry (of wood); thin (of a person)

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[sitã] pron. like this; this way

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[surúu doɲó] n. traitor; scoundrel

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[sɨ] v. die

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[sɨre] n. wild pig; boar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨsi] n. now

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. sisi

[taabjó] n. a temporary hut

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxò] n. bamboo split used for demarcating land

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tajã] n. bee (single)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨp pɨpɨ] n. Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes

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[urú] n. family

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[ɨpɨɁnɨ] n. sweeper

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[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[xũta] n. timber; wooden post

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[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

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[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

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[japĩ hulo] n. nose plug

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[jasi jalo] n. reflection

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[ɲabe] v. frown; scowl

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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[ɲaɲuɁ] n. double chin; wrinkle under the chin

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[ɲimũ] n. young woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì bée] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno