Apatani English

[akó-abiɁ] pron. everyone; everybody; every person

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[apa-ama] adj. simple; artless; guileless; innocent

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[arɨɨ] n. horn (anatomical)

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[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[asã] v. laud; praise; extol

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[asiɁ] n. nest; lair; den

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[atú-kahè] n. size

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[auɁ gɨgjá] n. waist

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[baajoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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[bariɁ] v. get up; stand up syn. guri’

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Dialect: syn. guri’

[bãs garɨ] n. bus

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Dialect: or. English

[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[bĩpu] adj. round; spherical; plump; rotund

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[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[bũ] v. crowd

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

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Dialect: var. bwjé bwjé

[bíiɁ] v. compensate; make reparation; make amends

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[caa] v. step on

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[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

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[dogĩ] n. genesis; origin; creation; migration

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[doɉiɁ roɁpo] n. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)

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[dɨraa-loɲã] n. in the coming years

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[gõpjã] v. close mouth

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Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpiñ

[gɨxuɁ] n. worn out dress

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjaasi] n. mother’s mother’s brother’s patrilines; portion of the meat traditionally offered to such relations

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gòobu] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ var. gòrbú; gòbúr

[haaja-mjoxa] n. famine; scarcity of food

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwme

[haʎã] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. haapa

[harù] n. lung

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huã ácì] n. backache; back pain

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨ] pron. that

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[hóo] v. feed (esp. an animal)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩgjaɁ] v. astray; off course; go the wrong way

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[ɉare] num. one thousand

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Dialect: etym. jar + he

[ɉãda] n. flag

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

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[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

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[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kanulo] n. weekdays

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[keɁ] v. put on cloth (esp. blankets, quilts or shawls); cover; overspread; overlay

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[kobjã́] n. bracelet; bangle

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[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[kõda] n. tommorow morning

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[kɨmè] n. poison (esp. of snake); snake venom

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Dialect: var. kwmì

[kóò] n. son

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[laɁca] n. handicap of the hand; disability of the hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leŋò] n. lawn; front yard; space in the village

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[lẽ] v. collect, as honey

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[lukã] v. speak for a long time

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[lɨbeɁ] v. scratch using claws or hooves

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[lɨnɨ] n. big toe

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[medǝr nelo] n. place of worship (Lit. ‘house of purity’)

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[mɨpjã] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨxɨ̃-mɨmjɨ̃] adv. do something in a confused way

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelĩ] v. send somebody out

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Dialect: ant. nelw’

[nẽkeɁ] n. thirteenth lunar month of the year; December-January

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[nẽru] adj. foul smelling

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Dialect: ant. neñpyo

[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

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[no ho] pron. where

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[nɨɁrɨɁ] v. run into somebody

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[oho asiɁ] n. grandchild

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[paroɁ lãxa] n. poultry house

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[pasǝr] n. extra; remainder

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[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

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[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[poɁna] n. fermented rice or millet eaten as such

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[potũ] n. witness in a business transaction

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[pjaɁmĩ] adj. orange color

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

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[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web

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[rɨgoɁ] n. cane loop tied on the horns of cows or mithuns

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. rwguñ

[sorɉĩ] v. stretch straight; straighten out

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[ta] v. listen; hear

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[taɁkó] v. dig a hole or trench

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[tabè] n. a variety of tree of palm family, the trunk of which is edible

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[taciɁ] n. wood-boring insect attacking bamboo or softwood

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[tano-gogo] n. snail

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. tano gorgo

[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[tarɉĩ] v. straighten

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Dialect: ant. tarki’

[tiɁho] v. make a mark

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[tõrò] adj. small (of group)

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Dialect: ant. tozó

[tuuma] adj. courageous; daring

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[túpiɁ] v. break something fragile by kicking

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[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[xaŋe ʎãge] n. water scorpion (Nepidae)

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[xoɁ] v. crow (as a cock)

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[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

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[xée] v. fry; roast

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[jaɁpu-jaɁlã] n. a variety of Muruñ festival considered to be of higher status

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[jatɨɁ] n. umbrella of bamboo and leaves covering the head and the back

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[jaxã] n. large liquid container of bamboo wicker whose inner lining is coated with rubber

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[ɲoo] letter name z ɲoo the letter representing ɲ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

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[áakũ] v. come early

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