Yokoim English

sentence come here (imperative)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun grandmother

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence the woman gave the pig to me

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun woman, lady

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

phrase to the woman

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase yesterday

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun arrow

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence give the bow to me

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence I’m looking at myself

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun firewood

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my name is

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase my coconut

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my feathers

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase my X

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun roof posts

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun grandmother

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun mother

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun head ornament

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun men’s headdress

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sugarcane which grows by river

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun knee

Speaker: Felix Andi ,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase liquid local salt

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun white men (sg. white man)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun chickens (sg. chicken)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun mosquitos (sg. mosquito)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase many mosquitos

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun white man (pl. white men)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun heart

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun tears

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase took from me yesterday

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence the woman gave the pig to me

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

proper name Yokoim

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase goodbye

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun; phrase tool for digging up grass

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun eye (pl. eyes)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun coconut trees (sg. coconut tree)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence they gave to us

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence They know me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun three-pronged fish spear

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun stamps for body painting

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun bamboo

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun head

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase headache

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my one daughter

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase two ears

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

numeral two

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase back of canoe, woman’s part of canoe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

numeral two

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase big pig (pl. big pigs)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun fence

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun children

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun flying fox (pl. flying foxes)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun flying foxes (sg. flying fox)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

proper name Kundiman

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

adjective big

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun knotting

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun log tie

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun tongue

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun crocodile (pl. crocodiles)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase front of canoe, man’s part of canoe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase one canoe

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence look at yourself

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence you gave to me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

numeral eight

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase that pig

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase my pig (pl. my pigs)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase your [house]

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago trunk

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sakuri catfish

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun fern

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun brain

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun bone

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase spider web

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun egret

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun boy

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

numeral four

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago tree

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun cloud or sky (pl. clouds)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase pandanus fruit

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun teeth (sg. tooth)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmari

noun fungus

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sweat

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence I don’t know you

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence don’t come here (imperative)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun sago flour

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun boy

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

proper name Wonks (man’s name)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

adjective fake, false, lying

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my pig (pl. my pigs)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence they gave the pig to us

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence the pig came out from the forest

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence you gave the pig to me already

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun shoulder

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun; phrase stomach ache

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun small cooking broom

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase ran

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun sago pancake

Speaker: Felix Andi ,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago pulp, flour

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun fish scoop basket

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sago trunk

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari