Yokoim English

noun grandmother

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun arms (sg. arm)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun woman, lady

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence the woman took the pig from me yesterday

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase to the woman

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun flower for face painting

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun smoke

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence I saw the pig

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence I don’t have two pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence I have two pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence give the bow to me

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun clay cooking vessel

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my eye

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase dried fish

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun food

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence Mother give me a pancake

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun cassowary

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun maternal uncle

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun fire

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun eyes (sg. eye)

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun flower, certain type

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun roof

Speaker: Nick Waikay ,
Dialect: Konmei

noun feathers (sg. feather)

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

noun leaf (pl. leaves)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun house (pl. houses)

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase this pig

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

phrase many mosquitos

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun meat

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun hand

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun musical seeds

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun tears

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence The woman is taking the pig from me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun nose

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun; phrase tool for digging up grass

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I cut the tree

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence we saw you

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence they gave to us

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence they gave to me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun armband

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I’m hungry

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun long sticks

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun kawi fish, snakehead gobifish

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun daughter

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my one daughter

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase two pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

numeral two

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun window

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

numeral three

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase three pigs

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun fence

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun pig tusk

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

adjective big

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun elder sister

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun firewood basket

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun daughter, sister

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun navel

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun crocodile egg

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun crocodiles (sg. crocodile)

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

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

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun basket

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun brother

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun younger brother

Speaker: Augus Kaien,
Dialect: Karawari

noun rope holding house beams together

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase one iba

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase one whiteman

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase one [tear]

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase one canoe

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

phrase my husband

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence don’t look at me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence don’t tell me (imperative)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence don’t come here (imperative)

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

sentence do you know me?

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

numeral eight

Speaker: Nick Waikay,
Dialect: Konmei

numeral seven

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun leg

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I saw them

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

sentence we know them

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sago trunk

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun toe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun fish arrow

Speaker: Louis Kolisi ,
Dialect: Kundiman

numeral five

Speaker: Ben Koni,
Dialect: Konmei

noun wild ginger

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun moon

Speaker: Augus Kaien ,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago waste pulp

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun sago palm

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun sago pancake

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun fruit (seeds)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun; phrase toothache

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence he does not know me

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence you didn’t see us

Speaker: Chris Nick,
Dialect: Manjamai

noun axe

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase good night

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

sentence I spear(ed) the pig

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I will give the pig to you later

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence I gave the pig to you

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

sentence you gave the pig to me already

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

phrase my song

Speaker: Felix Andi,
Dialect: Karawari

noun wild ginger

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun star (pl. stars)

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman

noun; phrase toothache

Speaker: Louis Kolisi,
Dialect: Kundiman