Apatani English

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

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

[abúr] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abú;

[acũ] v. hide; conceal; camouflage; cove up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎí-jasì] n. weather; climate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agoo] adj. external; exterior

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ura

[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amánɨ] pron. everything; each item

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axor] n. letter

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[baɉi] n. time

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bareɁ] v. snap or break, as a thread

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buukò] n. a variety of large jungle rat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨrĩ] n. python (Python molurus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caabã] v. crush something underground with the feet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁpi] n. wooden door frame

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dǝǝ] letter name d the letter representing d in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dã] v. beat (with a stick)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dopaa] n. a children’s game played with pebbles

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[ema] n. dream; reverie

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imáa

[ʎiro toko] n. uvula

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎĩtũ] a variety of wild raspberry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨɁ] v. lie down

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haajã] n. pulp; core; inner position

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hurĩ] n. protective body armor of cane belt worn around the waist

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɉã] n. new born

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉoɁ] v. cut, lengthwise with a blade

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉopjã] v. close something by placing something in the opening ant. joko’

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kalaɁ] v. recognize; know

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kaciñ

[kanɨ] n. one who sees

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karo] v. spy; peep

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[kera pɨcã] n. cauldron

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kordu] n. way of wearing a cloth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[korò] n. the morning before the last

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kosiɁ kosiɁ] pron. one after the other

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨle pemu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[laɁpã tuli] n. post of là’pañ

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laakur] v. take back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laama] adj. few; not many

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ice

[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lebe] v. be fed up of eating too much or too frequently of the same item

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mah] int. no; exclamation for negative response to a question

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mẽli] v. kill as revenge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. meli

[mombati] n. candle

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlãru] pron. all; everybody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxeɁ] v. make somebody cry

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[no hopa] pron. for where

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨbju] n. textile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bardè

[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paiɁ] v. get

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[pila sudu] n. bamboo container for storing pila

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pinto] prep. above; over

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁtũ pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. amú pèeruñ

[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. poozó

[popǝr] n. butterfly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pudu appú] n. a variety of flowering plant; Indian oleander (Nerium indicum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨca] adj. foolish, stupid, dumb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨʎiɁ] n. hut in the paddy fields or jungle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨmɨ] n. June; sixth lunar month of the year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨteɁ paɉi] n. motor cycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁmĩ] adj. orange color

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjoɁce] v. detach something to divide into two

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pì] v. divine an omen by examining an egg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋoɁɲó] adj. small (plot of land)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. qo’rò

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reŋe] adj. tired

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. reqw

[rɨɨ] v. buy; purchase

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pyu’

[saaxu] n. pine cone

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarli] n. millet seed preserved for the next season

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãtǝr] adj. fully grown

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxe page] n. a variety of bead

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[se] v. pull

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sulú] n. fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tagur ẽso] n. a variety of weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tano-gorgo] n. snail

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

[tartu] v. break

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲiɁ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tiɁho] v. make a mark

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tisǝr] adj. sweet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tale’

[ɨŋa] n. baby

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨsã] n. high jump

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨtɨ rɨbɨ] n. bamboo shoot

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw bwrw

[japĩ] n. nose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[álò] v. dry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì pami] n. goose pimples

Speaker: Tage Kanno