Apatani English

[abba] n. father; daddy; papa

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abǝr] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[anu] n. younger brother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baʎa] n. slope; slant; downslope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baɉiɁ] v. cook in oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁɉi] n. injection

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bibuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’

[bɨlũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. buluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buluñ-bwle

[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjãtũ] adj. big and thick (esp. of flower)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bww

[cǝǝ] letter name c tʃʌʌ the letter representing tʃ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caarò] adj. big (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cazó

[ceɁceɁ] adj. stubborn, obstinate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dekĩ pɨcã] n. clay pot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dilĩ] n. hair bun; tresses of bundled hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dũbĩ] adj. bald; hairless

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨraada] adv. next year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[embĩ xãcu] n. cane or bamboo basket used as rice container

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[empɨ] n. paddy husk

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pwnañ

[ẽɉã] n. rainy season

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: etym. eñdi+ ajañ

[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎã] v. bless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gorò

[gɨɁi] v. fall down (from standing position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁ] v. blow (as wind)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉiɁ] adj. happy; joyful; exultant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉooɉo] adj. refreshing; fresh

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kǝǝ] letter name k the letter representing k in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[káɉù] int. yes; okay

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁdu midĩ] n. elbow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. la’du mwriñ

[laɁpã] n. wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lalala] conj. then; and then

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽ] v. collect, as honey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[marlã] n. rust

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. harti

[mubuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. bebu’

[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miki

[mɨteɁ] v. knock down something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nelii] n. world of the dead

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[nẽtó] n. a house on the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñtó ant. neñbu, niñbu

[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohó] adj. tall; high

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁca] v. toss up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pa’lo

[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pakú] adj. bent; twisted; crooked

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ pamí] n. fowl flee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ patǝr] n. cage for chicken

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁtũla] adv. squatting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poxe] n. a variety of beer considered inferior in quality

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pɨdiɁ] n. fart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨdǝr] v. toss; lob

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo kobjã] n. a variety of bangle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁ] v. undo; answer (to a question put as means of ayú)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋǝǝ] letter name q ŋʌʌ the letter representing ŋ in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. qaare

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨmi] pron. me

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁnɨ] n. hen

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ro’po

[rubi] n. deaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨbó aʎĩ] n. the evening after three days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãkó] n. a kind of fruit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[seh] n. flat cane string for carrying load

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sijo] n. this night; tonight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soh] v. play; joke; flirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sopĩ] n. lizard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu] n. mithun; bos frontalis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sulú] n. fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcoɁ] n. spring; wellspring; fountainhead

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨmi] n. lake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tai hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Amaranthus spp.)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tanoɁ] n. snot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapã-kara alo] n. Tuesday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tappo] n. spinning knot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarkiɁ] v. bend

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tarjiñ

[tatá] adj. color pattern of mithun bull, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[teɁ] v. fall (esp. from a standing position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ude] n. house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[janɨ] n. leaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. anw

[ɲakù] adj. tilted; askew

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲãbũ] v. put one’s head into the water

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zañbyuñ

[ɲãbjũ] v. put one’s head into the water

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zañbuñ

[ákò] adj. low; short

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árù] n. weed; unwanted plant in an cultivated field

Speaker: Tage Kanno