IOL 2017 Problem #2 Abui
Here are some words and word combinations in Abui and their English translations in arbitrary order:
| 1. |
abang
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| 2. |
atáng heya
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| 3. |
bataa hawata
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| 4. |
dekafi
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| 5. |
ebataa hatáng
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| 6. |
ekuda hawata
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| 7. |
falepak hawei
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| 8. |
hatáng hamin
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| 9. |
helui
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| 10. |
maama hefalepak
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| 11. |
napong
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| 12. |
rièng
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| 13. |
ritama
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| 14. |
riya hatáng
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| 15. |
tama habang
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| 16. |
tamin
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| 17. |
tefe hawei
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| a. |
his fingertip
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| b. |
your (sg.) branch
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| c. |
my face
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| d. |
one’s own rope
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| e. |
your (sg.) shoulder
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| f. |
your (pl.) mother’s hand
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| g. |
our pigs’ ears (the ear of the pig of each of us)
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| h. |
father’s pistol
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| i. |
your (sg.) horse’s neck
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| j. |
trigger
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| k. |
your (pl.) eyes
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| l. |
our noses (the nose of each of us)
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| m. |
his knife
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| n. |
seashore
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| o. |
upper part of a tree
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| p. |
your (sg.) thumb
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| q. |
your (pl.) sea
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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| a
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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
