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IOL 2017 Problem #2 Abui

Here are some words and word combinations in Abui and their English translations in arbitrary order:

1. abang
2. atáng heya
3. bataa hawata
4. dekafi
5. ebataa hatáng
6. ekuda hawata
7. falepak hawei
8. hatáng hamin
9. helui
10. maama hefalepak
11. napong
12. rièng
13. ritama
14. riya hatáng
15. tama habang
16. tamin
17. tefe hawei
a. his fingertip
b. your (sg.) branch
c. my face
d. one’s own rope
e. your (sg.) shoulder
f. your (pl.) mother’s hand
g. our pigs’ ears (the ear of the pig of each of us)
h. father’s pistol
i. your (sg.) horse’s neck
j. trigger
k. your (pl.) eyes
l. our noses (the nose of each of us)
m. his knife
n. seashore
o. upper part of a tree
p. your (sg.) thumb
q. your (pl.) sea
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(a) Determine the correct correspondences.

(b) Translate into English: 1. amin; 2. deya hebataa.

(c) Translate into Abui:

1. pig
2. your (pl.) knife
3. your (sg.) mother’s father
4. my father’s face
5. one’s own ear
6. my sea

⚠ Abui belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. It is spoken by approx. 16 000 people in Indonesia. The marks ́ and ̀ denote tones.

—Aleksejs Peguševs

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