Yokoim English

numeral twenty

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun throat

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun; phrase woman’s paddle

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence the woman took the pig from me yesterday

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun flower, certain type

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I don’t want it, don’t give the pig to me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I have two pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence I cut the tree with an axe

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence I cut it with an axe

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase my eye

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my wife

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun food

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence you will never get it

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence they saw me

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun eye (pl. eyes)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun coconut

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun tobacco

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun house (pl. houses)

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun houses (sg. house)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase greetings

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

numeral ten

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun woman (pl. women)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun foot

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase took from me yesterday

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun drum stick

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun eggs (sg. eggs)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun leaf (pl. leaves)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun coconut tree (pl. coconut trees)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence I cut the tree

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun elbow

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun canoe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase small canoe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun armband

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun house post

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun stamps for body painting

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sago pudding

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago pudding

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun head

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun pig spears

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun fly

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my two pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun sickness

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

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

Speaker: Louis Kolisi ,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase big pigs (sg. big pigs)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

phrase my family

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

proper name Kundiman

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun elder brother

Speaker: Felix Andi ,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my elder brother

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun elder sister

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun rain

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun log tie

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I want to drink water

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I see you

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase one [house]

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase one whiteman

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence look at yourself

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun; phrase paddle blade

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun stomach

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sky

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase short men

Speaker: Chris Nick ,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun leg

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun sago flour basket

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

phrase tall man

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence I gave the pig to them

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence we gave to them

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sago trunk

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun stakes holding sago log

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun fern

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun eyes (sg. eye)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun boy

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun cloud or sky (pl. clouds)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun moon

Speaker: Augus Kaien ,
Dialect: Karawari

noun stool

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun stool

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun day

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun tooth (pl. teeth)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun (fruit) seed

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun (fruit) seeds

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun flame of the forest flower

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun snake (pl. snakes)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun snakes (sg. snake)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence he does not know me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun leaf costume

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun boy

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun feathers

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun boy

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun boy, son

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun pig (pl. pigs)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence give the pig to me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence you gave the pig to me long ago

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence you gave the pig to me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I gave the pig to them

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my pigs (sg. my pig)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun; phrase stomach ache

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase ran

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun woman’s grass skirt

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun small cane

Speaker: Nick Waikay ,
Dialect: Konmei

noun star (pl. stars)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my sago pancake

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun fish scoop basket

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman