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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

a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

(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