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invite

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Collector

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

hawk (v)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

object(ion)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[yet we pig=abl dem.prox=gen take=pst.i neg-aux=1pl] ‘we will not have taken it from the pigs yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Decision

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

select (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

late afternoon

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Ceiling

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

other’s

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

road, hill

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[please] ‘please’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

judge

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

younger brother (addresed by a brother)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Bemoan to

Speaker: Komla Sisa

slough of snake

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

much, too

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

mutual

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Childless couple

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Beard

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

need (v)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

two hundred people

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

this time, in

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[pig obj-I tomorrow! bite=pst.ii aux=pst.i] ‘the pigs bit me yesterday’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Goat skin

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Female louse

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

chicken wing

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Fishing hook

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Chin, jaw

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

sift

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Doze (vb)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Black color, to use

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

black

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

wife

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Cut bamboo with an axe (vb)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

put rice to cook (vb.)

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

[man branch break=pst.ii] ‘the man has broken the branch’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron and I rdpl~die neg.cop=prtcl] ‘he+I weren’t dying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron and I go neg.cop=1pl] ‘he+I aren’t going’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron sleep=pst.i aux=npst] ‘he is sleeping’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl sleep=pst.i=pl] ‘they slept’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

him, by

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

gang

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Arrange at one place

Speaker: Komla Sisa

which are, to

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

sharpness

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Center

Speaker: Komla Sisa

[we neg=die=emph/neg.tam=1pl] ‘we aren’t dying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we obj=you.pl=pl=obj push=1pl neg.cop] ‘we have not pushed you’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Cheat

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[we neg-go-pst.i aux=1pl] ‘we will have not gone’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

baby

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I now=abl cry=1 neg.cop] ‘I am not crying yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I cry neg.cop=1] ‘I didn’t cry’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I woman-obj story rdpl~tell stop lv=pst.ii=1 neg.cop] ‘I did not stop telling the story to the women’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I stand neg.cop] I am not standing’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

limbs to stretch

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I=gen three=clssfr big-adj black pig] ‘my 3 big black pigs’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you and I neg.antic-sleep=neg.tam=1pl] ‘you+I won’t sleep’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you dem.dist man-obj neg-see=pst.ii aux=pst.i=mod obj-I say] ‘if you don’t see the man, tell me’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you dem.dist man-obj neg-see=pst.ii aux=pst.i=mod obj-I say] ‘if you don’t see the man, tell me’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-we cold lv=pst.i aux=fut] ‘we had a cold’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj=you.pl all person=obj cold rdpl~lv neg=aux] ‘you all haven’t had a cold’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

remove (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Aha!

Speaker: Komla Sisa

freed, be

Speaker: Komla Sisa

papaya tree

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[girl sad cop=npst] ‘the girl is sad’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

leaf, tobacco

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

rags

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you.pl yet neg-go=pst.i=2pl aux-pst.i] ‘you weren’t going yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl both cry=2pl neg.cop] ‘you two didn’t cry’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl dem.prox=gen we=gen=abl neg=take=neg.tam=2pl] ‘you all won’t take it from us two’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

blow

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

funnel

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

worshipping

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Cotton plants

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

garden

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Father-in-law

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

basket type

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

salphi tree, salphi liquors, sago palm

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

illness

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

oil, metal cup to measure

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

stomach ailment

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

say

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

three

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

hearth

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

wrist

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

peck (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[dem.dist man-obj yesterday see-pst.ii=1 aux-pst.i] ‘I saw the man yesterday’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

soil condition

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

negative expression

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

there

Speaker: Komla Sisa

answer

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

former

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

up and down

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Cradle, swing

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

hang up (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

spread out

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Collect in a basket in handful (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa