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mtob_321
{ "orig": "The ducks ar swimming at the edge of the water in a row.", "translation": "Bebak yie perbolat pareirte dong.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000059.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nKinship terms are presented in the following groups: siblings; cousins; parents, aunts and uncles; grandparents and grandchildren; sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (consanguines); and inlaws (affines). For each group, the terms are presented in a table. An overview of all terms of referen...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The ducks ar swimming at the edge of the water in a row. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Bebak yie perbolat pareirte dong.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The ducks ar swimming at the edge of the water in a row.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_112
{ "orig": "There is firewood up there.", "translation": "Kai me keit owatko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000503.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThere are two ways to mark NPs with locative =ko [cf.][]huber2018. When there is no ambiguity with regard to the location of the referent, or when the location is big or generic, =ko can be attached to a NP consisting of just a noun. This applies to place namesnames!place names (see ), landscap...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There is firewood up there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: up there Kalamang ...
Kai me keit owatko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There is firewood up there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_408
{ "orig": "Nabil is plagued by mucus.", "translation": "Nabil marur mat paruo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000822.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nabil is plagued by mucus. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nabil" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: until Kalamang tran...
Nabil marur mat paruo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nabil is plagued by mucus.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nabil\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word...
mtob_4
{ "orig": "What are you doing?", "translation": "Ka nebara bonasausau reba?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000083.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: What are you doing? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "What" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: like that Kalamang translat...
Ka nebara bonasausau reba?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: What are you doing?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"What\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra...
mtob_382
{ "orig": "I don't have frying oil.", "translation": "Mingtunan saerak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000871.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I don't have frying oil. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know Kalamang tra...
Mingtunan saerak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I don't have frying oil.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_99
{ "orig": "There's an eel in the stone.", "translation": "Kawarsuop yar nerunggo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000484.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther examples of spatial association are the names of certain species, especially fish species, as shown in (). The wienar 'parrotfish' is contrasted with other wienar species, such as wienar saruam 'longnose parrotfish'. It can also be used in a more general sense to group for example all fis...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There's an eel in the stone. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: like here Kalam...
Kawarsuop yar nerunggo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There's an eel in the stone.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
mtob_186
{ "orig": "They kindled a fire and there were many embers.", "translation": "Mu dinat upta din songsong reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000130.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nAll intransitive clauses display this pattern irrespective of whether the subject is volitional/actor or non-volitional/undergoer. Active participants such as 'they' in () are formally the same as the undergoer participants such as 'he' in () and 'grass' in (), that is, they are unmarked.\nmu k...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They kindled a fire and there were many embers. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase:...
Mu dinat upta din songsong reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They kindled a fire and there were many embers.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dicti...
mtob_283
{ "orig": "Someone is whistling on the edge of the beach over there.", "translation": "Somkona oskol owangga filoit.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000200.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n[Far distal owa]Directing to owane fdist\nOther\nFar distal locative owatko 'over there', while usually used for invisible locationlocations, can also be used when the location is far away from both the speaker and the addressee, and when the speaker wants to create a mental distance to the ref...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Someone is whistling on the edge of the beach over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Someone" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English wo...
Somkona oskol owangga filoit.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Someone is whistling on the edge of the beach over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Someone\" in the Kalamang-English bi...
mtob_311
{ "orig": "Binkur's father goes fishing but the fish don't bite.", "translation": "Binkur esun bo war jarutu reba ba sor natnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000313.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nNegative clauses differ from affirmatives in that they do not allow the same verbal marking. The enclitic =kin (§), used in affirmative clauses for the expression of volition and imminent situations, is incompatible with negator =nin. This is illustrated in example (). The range of semantic dis...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Binkur's father goes fishing but the fish don't bite. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Binkur's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Binkur esun bo war jarutu reba ba sor natnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Binkur's father goes fishing but the fish don't bite.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Binkur's\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_246
{ "orig": "I'm getting strings for a basket.", "translation": "An kiemalunara rep.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000008.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nbunga pas gol=at sempang=ten nakal keirunggo\nflower woman ball=obj kick=at head ontopof\n'The flower is on the head of the woman who kicks the ball.' \nkawir canam im=at nan=ten nakal keirunggo\nhat man banana=obj consume=at head ontopof\n'The hat is on the head of the man who eats the banana....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm getting strings for a basket. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'm" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: stem Kalamang ...
An kiemalunara rep.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm getting strings for a basket.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_378
{ "orig": "Teacher Banda is going harvesting nutmeg.", "translation": "Pak guru Banda bo sayangkoser teba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000659.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Teacher Banda is going harvesting nutmeg. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Teacher" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: te...
Pak guru Banda bo sayangkoser teba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Teacher Banda is going harvesting nutmeg.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Teacher\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_51
{ "orig": "I'm writing down Eline's Kalamang.", "translation": "An Elin Kalamangmangunara natulis.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000979.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nbunga pas gol=at sempang=ten nakal keirunggo\nflower woman ball=obj kick=at head ontopof\n'The flower is on the head of the woman who kicks the ball.' \nkawir canam im=at nan=ten nakal keirunggo\nhat man banana=obj consume=at head ontopof\n'The hat is on the head of the man who eats the banana....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm writing down Eline's Kalamang. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'm" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: stem Kalamang...
An Elin Kalamangmangunara natulis.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm writing down Eline's Kalamang.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_277
{ "orig": "That Javanese man has long body hair.", "translation": "Jawaca yumene ma kadenenun kahen.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000340.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That Javanese man has long body hair. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that...
Jawaca yumene ma kadenenun kahen.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That Javanese man has long body hair.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_116
{ "orig": "Rustam's grandmother has a mole on her eyelid.", "translation": "Rustam taraun merar kon kanggir pulunggo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000853.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Rustam's grandmother has a mole on her eyelid. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rustam's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phra...
Rustam taraun merar kon kanggir pulunggo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rustam's grandmother has a mole on her eyelid.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rustam's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di...
mtob_49
{ "orig": "Tamandi's mother was afraid of a snake and jumped around.", "translation": "Tamandi emun kiwat semda bo dalangdalang.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000113.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Tamandi's mother was afraid of a snake and jumped around. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tamandi's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English ...
Tamandi emun kiwat semda bo dalangdalang.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tamandi's mother was afraid of a snake and jumped around.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tamandi's\" in the Kalamang-English ...
mtob_62
{ "orig": "They walked until the edge of the beach.", "translation": "Mu marmari os koldun bo duk.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000150.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nDirectional verbs may also be used with a subject and object argument without use of di=. In these cases, the verbs indicate ongoing movement, or have less focus on the goal of the movement and more on the movement itself. () is about climbing a coconut palm in order to pick coconuts. The focus...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They walked until the edge of the beach. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Ne...
Mu marmari os koldun bo duk.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They walked until the edge of the beach.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\...
mtob_188
{ "orig": "He went to land, and brought his brother back (seawards).", "translation": "Ma he mara adiunat kuru marua.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000706.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He went to land, and brought his brother back (seawards). To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Ma he mara adiunat kuru marua.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He went to land, and brought his brother back (seawards).\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_275
{ "orig": "Mister Sam and associates go fishing to stab stingrays.", "translation": "Pak Sam mu bo masura isisat komain.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000304.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mister Sam and associates go fishing to stab stingrays. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mister" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Pak Sam mu bo masura isisat komain.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mister Sam and associates go fishing to stab stingrays.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mister\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_200
{ "orig": "That nutmeg's base is already dry.", "translation": "Sayang me ewuna he sa.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000194.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nMany nouns that are modified with a numeral are not attested with a classifier. Examples include all nouns referring to persons (unless they are in a group and following each other, in which case the group classifier ep- is used), shells as in (), landscape features like lempuang 'island' and c...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That nutmeg's base is already dry. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that Ka...
Sayang me ewuna he sa.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That nutmeg's base is already dry.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_266
{ "orig": "A parrot laid eggs in the tree hole.", "translation": "Busbus kon ma ror poskoa amkeit.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000095.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: A parrot laid eggs in the tree hole. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "A" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Antalisa Kala...
Busbus kon ma ror poskoa amkeit.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: A parrot laid eggs in the tree hole.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"A\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_92
{ "orig": "Nyong's mother and they are processing sea cucumbers at Kanastangan.", "translation": "Nyong esun mu Kanstanganggoa kibi paruo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000402.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nyong's mother and they are processing sea cucumbers at Kanastangan. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nyong's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
Nyong esun mu Kanstanganggoa kibi paruo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nyong's mother and they are processing sea cucumbers at Kanastangan.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nyong's\" in the Kalamang...
mtob_197
{ "orig": "Some I chop up, maybe twenty pieces or so.", "translation": "Ikoni an se parair mungkin etpurirkonggap ye.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000631.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nMany nouns that are modified with a numeral are not attested with a classifier. Examples include all nouns referring to persons (unless they are in a group and following each other, in which case the group classifier ep- is used), shells as in (), landscape features like lempuang 'island' and c...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Some I chop up, maybe twenty pieces or so. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Some" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: some...
Ikoni an se parair mungkin etpurirkonggap ye.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Some I chop up, maybe twenty pieces or so.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Some\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary...
mtob_33
{ "orig": "I hit a sharp thing, then I screamed: ouch!", "translation": "An don kang komain, eba an arekmang: adihǃ", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000030.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I hit a sharp thing, then I screamed: ouch! To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don'...
An don kang komain, eba an arekmang: adihǃ
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I hit a sharp thing, then I screamed: ouch!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\...
mtob_156
{ "orig": "Rustam's grandmother spit on me by accident.", "translation": "Rustam taraun anat salai koalom.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000574.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'She cut string, right, she cut [it] with her teeth.' \nAnother example comes from a narrative of which the object is tobacco, but only has tobacco in object position three times in the beginning, given in ().\nobject omission\nSu tabaiat kasi kaluar, nene mu. Tabaiat kasi kaluarkan an me kan t...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Rustam's grandmother spit on me by accident. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rustam's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase...
Rustam taraun anat salai koalom.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rustam's grandmother spit on me by accident.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rustam's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict...
mtob_57
{ "orig": "Moktar's father is speaking Kilimala language.", "translation": "Moktar esun Kueimang deba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000691.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Moktar's father is speaking Kilimala language. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Moktar's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phra...
Moktar esun Kueimang deba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Moktar's father is speaking Kilimala language.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Moktar's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di...
mtob_315
{ "orig": "It's evening, Dalima is tired.", "translation": "Go he saun, Dalima he kanggir pop.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000412.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe 'until'-constructions with bo 'to go' illustrated in () and () are also often found with distal manner demonstrative!mannerdemonstrative mindi and another verb, marked with predicate linker =i. The order is Verb=plnk + 'like that' + 'go' (example ). The construction can be elaborated with m...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: It's evening, Dalima is tired. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: that's it Kalama...
Go he saun, Dalima he kanggir pop.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It's evening, Dalima is tired.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_155
{ "orig": "We have many coconuts.", "translation": "Wat kin reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000556.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\npossessor-possessum order & & §\nclause-final negator & & §\nKalamang has four of the six features. While Kalamang exhibits different ways to make possessive constructions, it is not clear what governs the use of these strategies, and so it is unclear whether we can speak of possessive classifi...
2,458
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We have many coconuts. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Wednesday Kalamang transla...
Wat kin reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We have many coconuts.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr...
mtob_81
{ "orig": "My bag has disappeared.", "translation": "Tasan he gosomin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000260.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe 'until'-constructions with bo 'to go' illustrated in () and () are also often found with distal manner demonstrative!mannerdemonstrative mindi and another verb, marked with predicate linker =i. The order is Verb=plnk + 'like that' + 'go' (example ). The construction can be elaborated with m...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My bag has disappeared. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "My" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: sixty Kalamang translatio...
Tasan he gosomin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My bag has disappeared.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_282
{ "orig": "A fruit-dove sits there.", "translation": "Kuk etkon yumetko melalu.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000693.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe noun phrase (NP) is an important analytical concept in Kalamang grammar, as it is the domain of attachment of postpositions and topic and focus markers. The object NP is marked with object postpositionpostposition =at, forming a postpositional phrase (PP).\nma ror cicaun=at pue\n3sg tree sm...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: A fruit-dove sits there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "A" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Antalisa Kalamang transla...
Kuk etkon yumetko melalu.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: A fruit-dove sits there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"A\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_276
{ "orig": "Muklis' mother have sack of rice with many husks.", "translation": "Muklis emun me pasun goni kon me kupkuwun reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000702.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Muklis' mother have sack of rice with many husks. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Muklis'" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ph...
Muklis emun me pasun goni kon me kupkuwun reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Muklis' mother have sack of rice with many husks.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Muklis'\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual ...
mtob_301
{ "orig": "Place that rack in the light.", "translation": "Rak yume di goraruo maraouk.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000255.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it; that's enough' is also a demonstrative clause. () is taken from a story where a black-furred monkey wants to turn his fur white. A cuscus puts him in a cage in the rising sea, knowing that everything looks lighter under water. When the monkey sees his legs st...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Place that rack in the light. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Place" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: place Kalamang t...
Rak yume di goraruo maraouk.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Place that rack in the light.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Place\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_0
{ "orig": "Sakina is pouching guavas.", "translation": "Sakina sarimara lawat.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000731.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Sakina is pouching guavas. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sakina" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: casuarina (tree) K...
Sakina sarimara lawat.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Sakina is pouching guavas.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sakina\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_403
{ "orig": "We call the kids to return.", "translation": "In tok tumtum gonggung yecie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000252.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We call the kids to return. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Wednesday Kalamang tr...
In tok tumtum gonggung yecie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We call the kids to return.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
mtob_400
{ "orig": "There are no horses here.", "translation": "Lajarang watkoet saerak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000712.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n() and () illustrate the quantifying -(a)hutak seriespronoun!quantifying. In (), one speaker leaves the other during a recording session and orders her to speak further on her own. There are no others around, so the speaker is really only talking about the addressee. In (), people are discussin...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are no horses here. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: up there Kalamang tr...
Lajarang watkoet saerak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are no horses here.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word ...
mtob_453
{ "orig": "When it rains we can see the other island close-by.", "translation": "Kalis urta pi lenggonat komera kokir.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000586.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: When it rains we can see the other island close-by. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "When" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phr...
Kalis urta pi lenggonat komera kokir.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: When it rains we can see the other island close-by.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"When\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual d...
mtob_91
{ "orig": "Up at Werneti there are crowned pigeons.", "translation": "Maniktapuri Werneti osaet me mambon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000810.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Up at Werneti there are crowned pigeons. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Up" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: banana s...
Maniktapuri Werneti osaet me mambon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Up at Werneti there are crowned pigeons.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Up\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...
mtob_373
{ "orig": "He is a stranger.", "translation": "Ma me sontum kolet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000594.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'I slacken mine, as for yours, you drag it over there, then you slacken!' \nPossessive constructions and possessive morphology is further described in Chapter .\nPronominal addressperson address\nPronominal address with the second-person singular ka and plural ki is a common form of address in ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He is a stranger. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: a big one Kalamang translation:...
Ma me sontum kolet.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He is a stranger.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ...
mtob_384
{ "orig": "My heart is broken.", "translation": "Minan karaok.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000865.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThis is not a well-established construction, and the three other reflexive corpus examples rely on Malay loans. The Malay reflexive pronoun diri 'self' is used in those constructions, which are combined with an AustronesianAustronesian!loan loan verb natobat 'repent' (example ) or Malay loan ve...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My heart is broken. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "My" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: sixty Kalamang translation: p...
Minan karaok.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My heart is broken.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase...
mtob_202
{ "orig": "It rains, dew (damp) comes into the houses.", "translation": "Kalis ourta masinul bo kewe nerunggo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000832.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
2,526
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: It rains, dew (damp) comes into the houses. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: young...
Kalis ourta masinul bo kewe nerunggo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It rains, dew (damp) comes into the houses.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
mtob_241
{ "orig": "Saleha's husband went to Kiaba.", "translation": "Saleha namun Kiabangga bot.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000937.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Saleha's husband went to Kiaba. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Saleha's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kuhl's stin...
Saleha namun Kiabangga bot.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Saleha's husband went to Kiaba.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Saleha's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_82
{ "orig": "Burhan calls Tami's father uncle.", "translation": "Burhan me Tami esunat gonggunget me mama.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000796.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTamangga 'to/from where' and tamatko 'where' are formed with tama plus the lative or the locative enclitic, respectively (for the morphosyntax see §). They have verbal properties. Tamangga, like other words carrying lative =ka, is primarily used in predicate!complex complex predicates (see Chap...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Burhan calls Tami's father uncle. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Burhan" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: orphan Kala...
Burhan me Tami esunat gonggunget me mama.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Burhan calls Tami's father uncle.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Burhan\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_237
{ "orig": "Aunt has a fever.", "translation": "Ema temun kadenun lalang.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000169.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nKinship terms are presented in the following groups: siblings; cousins; parents, aunts and uncles; grandparents and grandchildren; sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (consanguines); and inlaws (affines). For each group, the terms are presented in a table. An overview of all terms of referen...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Aunt has a fever. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Aunt" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: hunt Kalamang translation: sa...
Ema temun kadenun lalang.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Aunt has a fever.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Aunt\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase...
mtob_368
{ "orig": "They are making a broom with hairs from the sugar palm.", "translation": "Mu coknenenggia sirarai gamutuat paruo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000108.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
2,592
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They are making a broom with hairs from the sugar palm. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Mu coknenenggia sirarai gamutuat paruo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They are making a broom with hairs from the sugar palm.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_278
{ "orig": "We were boiling water and the fire burnt the fireplace.", "translation": "In perlalangat kuarta didir din na.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000125.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nAnaphoric usedemonstrative!anaphoric\nClear endophoric usage of the distal demonstrative as in (), where me refers back to a referent introduced earlier (anaphora), is rather rare.\nMa canamat koni koluk. Canam me, pusirunbon.\nma canam=at kon-i koluk canam me pusir-un=bon\n3sg man=obj one-objq...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We were boiling water and the fire burnt the fireplace. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or p...
In perlalangat kuarta didir din na.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We were boiling water and the fire burnt the fireplace.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual...
mtob_303
{ "orig": "You don't know the Kalamang language, don't speak.", "translation": "Ka kalamangmangat komahal, kamun garungin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000361.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\npossessor-possessum order & & §\nclause-final negator & & §\nKalamang has four of the six features. While Kalamang exhibits different ways to make possessive constructions, it is not clear what governs the use of these strategies, and so it is unclear whether we can speak of possessive classifi...
2,760
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: You don't know the Kalamang language, don't speak. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "You" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phras...
Ka kalamangmangat komahal, kamun garungin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: You don't know the Kalamang language, don't speak.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"You\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dic...
mtob_35
{ "orig": "They called from the mainland.", "translation": "Mu he kelaka gonggung.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000320.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They called from the mainland. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherlands ...
Mu he kelaka gonggung.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They called from the mainland.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_227
{ "orig": "(She) comes from the Netherlands to learn our language.", "translation": "Beladargara mia mangberat belajar.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000062.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: (She) comes from the Netherlands to learn our language. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "(She)" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word o...
Beladargara mia mangberat belajar.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: (She) comes from the Netherlands to learn our language.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"(She)\" in the Kalamang-English biling...
mtob_436
{ "orig": "Randa's mother served bitter coffee.", "translation": "Randa emun kofirat gareorta mang.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000805.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Randa's mother served bitter coffee. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Randa's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: pandanu...
Randa emun kofirat gareorta mang.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Randa's mother served bitter coffee.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Randa's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n...
mtob_2
{ "orig": "My liver/adam's apple/throat hurts.", "translation": "Minan ning.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000864.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nWhile there is one noun that cannot be the object of a verb but instead must be incorporated, don 'thing', there are also restrictions on which elements can be incorporated. Pronouns, demonstrativedemonstratives and modified nouns cannot be incorporated. As for the verbs, intransitive verbs can...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My liver/adam's apple/throat hurts. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "My" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: sixty Kalaman...
Minan ning.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My liver/adam's apple/throat hurts.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_296
{ "orig": "Did your wife go up the mountain?", "translation": "Ka kiar kolakara era?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000533.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Did your wife go up the mountain? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Did" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: orchid Kalaman...
Ka kiar kolakara era?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Did your wife go up the mountain?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Did\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_272
{ "orig": "I slept until morning, then I got up.", "translation": "An minda go dungda an parar.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000238.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe most common type of complex predicate is made with predicate linker =i on all but the last word in the construction. They are monoclausal constructions with more than one independent verb or verb-like element and at least one shared argument. With the exception of 'until'-constructions with...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I slept until morning, then I got up. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know...
An minda go dungda an parar.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I slept until morning, then I got up.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_168
{ "orig": "Salima is cooking rice.", "translation": "Salima pasakuar teba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000685.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTamangga 'to/from where' and tamatko 'where' are formed with tama plus the lative or the locative enclitic, respectively (for the morphosyntax see §). They have verbal properties. Tamangga, like other words carrying lative =ka, is primarily used in predicate!complex complex predicates (see Chap...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima is cooking rice. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kilimala language Kal...
Salima pasakuar teba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima is cooking rice.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
mtob_304
{ "orig": "That is your house.", "translation": "Kewe ma me kain.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000355.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n1sg house-1sg.poss big=obj make\n'I am making my big house.' \nPossessive pronouns occupy a slot between head nouns and demonstratives (more precisely, between quantifiers and attributively used verbs, but no example illustrating this is available). () illustrates a possessive pronoun preceding...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That is your house. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that Kalamang translat...
Kewe ma me kain.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That is your house.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra...
mtob_78
{ "orig": "That kid is happy to study at home.", "translation": "Tum me senang ma kewo belajar.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000063.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You can eat rotten things like this.' \ntumun tur=ten ma elao melalu\nchild fall=at 3sg down.loc sit\n'The fallen child (he) sits on the floor.' \ntumun tiri=ten ladan kerkap=ten=at sabur\nchild run=at shirt red=at=obj wear\n'The running child wears a red shirt.' \ntumun doa=at nabaca=ten lada...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That kid is happy to study at home. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that K...
Tum me senang ma kewo belajar.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That kid is happy to study at home.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_355
{ "orig": "The sun is going down, it's dusk.", "translation": "Yuon darukta go kerkap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000241.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The sun is going down, it's dusk. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherland...
Yuon darukta go kerkap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The sun is going down, it's dusk.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_294
{ "orig": "Salima's mother is pestling chilli, she wants to cook fish with that.", "translation": "Salima emun lenggalengga naloli minggi sor kuarkin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000935.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima's mother is pestling chilli, she wants to cook fish with that. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
Salima emun lenggalengga naloli minggi sor kuarkin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima's mother is pestling chilli, she wants to cook fish with that.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima's\" in the Kalama...
mtob_240
{ "orig": "The fish's gall bladder exploded.", "translation": "Sar iemuna kararcie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000280.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther examples of spatial association are the names of certain species, especially fish species, as shown in (). The wienar 'parrotfish' is contrasted with other wienar species, such as wienar saruam 'longnose parrotfish'. It can also be used in a more general sense to group for example all fis...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The fish's gall bladder exploded. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherland...
Sar iemuna kararcie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The fish's gall bladder exploded.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_242
{ "orig": "His gums are swollen.", "translation": "Ma gierkawierun bengkak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000229.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: His gums are swollen. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "His" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: sejenis kuskus Kalamang tr...
Ma gierkawierun bengkak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: His gums are swollen.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"His\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr...
mtob_40
{ "orig": "In the evening we chat.", "translation": "Go saun in garung deba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000237.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'I slacken mine, as for yours, you drag it over there, then you slacken!' \nPossessive constructions and possessive morphology is further described in Chapter .\nPronominal addressperson address\nPronominal address with the second-person singular ka and plural ki is a common form of address in ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: In the evening we chat. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "In" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Indonesian Kalamang trans...
Go saun in garung deba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: In the evening we chat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"In\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_437
{ "orig": "Two cormorants flew over there.", "translation": "Lamora kasamin erir pararuoni owangga bot.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000715.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nAnti-topics (AT) are constituents at the right edge of the clause, which serve to specify or reactivate a topic lambrecht1981. In (), the subject of the clause, tumun opa me 'that child', is specified in the postposed NP. It is also a reactivation of the topic, which had been mentioned a few tu...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Two cormorants flew over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Two" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: two Kalamang tra...
Lamora kasamin erir pararuoni owangga bot.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Two cormorants flew over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Two\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_438
{ "orig": "It's drizzling.", "translation": "Kalis sasarawe.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000374.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: It's drizzling. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: that's it Kalamang translation:...
Kalis sasarawe.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It's drizzling.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ...
mtob_94
{ "orig": "They are picking gogit leaves to cook.", "translation": "Mu gogit olunat parua kuar.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000249.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They are picking gogit leaves to cook. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Neth...
Mu gogit olunat parua kuar.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They are picking gogit leaves to cook.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...
mtob_68
{ "orig": "Tomi's mother was throwing fishing line and caught a shark.", "translation": "Tomi emun wienmukta loptengat ramie reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000768.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Tomi's mother was throwing fishing line and caught a shark. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tomi's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English w...
Tomi emun wienmukta loptengat ramie reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tomi's mother was throwing fishing line and caught a shark.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tomi's\" in the Kalamang-English b...
mtob_28
{ "orig": "I'll comb my hear first.", "translation": "An tok nakalanat sisiret.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000190.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nbunga pas gol=at sempang=ten nakal keirunggo\nflower woman ball=obj kick=at head ontopof\n'The flower is on the head of the woman who kicks the ball.' \nkawir canam im=at nan=ten nakal keirunggo\nhat man banana=obj consume=at head ontopof\n'The hat is on the head of the man who eats the banana....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'll comb my hear first. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'll" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: big.shell Kalamang tra...
An tok nakalanat sisiret.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'll comb my hear first.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'll\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
mtob_58
{ "orig": "I go landwards at that edge.", "translation": "An asun menggara mara.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000036.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSix of the seven verbs can be divided into opposite pairs: sara 'to ascend' and bara 'to descend', masara 'to move towards land' and marua 'to move towards sea', and mia 'to come' and ra 'to move away'. These pairs may occur together to indicate a back-and-forth movement. The verb pairs saran-b...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I go landwards at that edge. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know Kalamang...
An asun menggara mara.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I go landwards at that edge.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
mtob_308
{ "orig": "Onin's father is carryin nutmegs.", "translation": "Onin esun sayangara lebaleba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000735.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n1sg say Nyong mother.3poss 1du.in first rest∼red tide first good= then dist.loc 1pl.excl fish=\n'I said: \"Nyong's mother, we two rest first. First when the tide is good, we go fishing.' \ndoa supaya mier sanang=et mier hidup-un bes mu-mun naras∼naras=in\nprayer sothat 3du happy= 3du life-3poss...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Onin's father is carryin nutmegs. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Onin's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Onin people...
Onin esun sayangara lebaleba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Onin's father is carryin nutmegs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Onin's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_319
{ "orig": "This is my parent in law, this is my father.", "translation": "Ketanana wa esanana wa.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000916.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTwo identificational examples are given in () and (). In (), the speaker points at a picture with three people and identifies them one by one. () is from a story about a wedding, where the names of the bride's and groom's families are called out as a way of introducing the family members to cou...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: This is my parent in law, this is my father. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "This" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: li...
Ketanana wa esanana wa.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: This is my parent in law, this is my father.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"This\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_84
{ "orig": "Jikri is cutting a catapult.", "translation": "Jikri kataperor potma reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000477.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nDirectional verbs may also be used with a subject and object argument without use of di=. In these cases, the verbs indicate ongoing movement, or have less focus on the goal of the movement and more on the movement itself. () is about climbing a coconut palm in order to pick coconuts. The focus...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Jikri is cutting a catapult. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Jikri" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: pestle for coconu...
Jikri kataperor potma reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Jikri is cutting a catapult.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Jikri\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wo...
mtob_376
{ "orig": "Alun is lazy.", "translation": "Alun me monkaret.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000877.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'She cut string, right, she cut [it] with her teeth.' \nAnother example comes from a narrative of which the object is tobacco, but only has tobacco in object position three times in the beginning, given in ().\nobject omission\nSu tabaiat kasi kaluar, nene mu. Tabaiat kasi kaluarkan an me kan t...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Alun is lazy. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Alun" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: run away from Kalamang translatio...
Alun me monkaret.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Alun is lazy.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Alun\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ru...
mtob_412
{ "orig": "The kids climbed to the top of the tree.", "translation": "Tumtum sara rorkeitko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000506.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg prison.mly=obj=foc return 3sg appl=chat\n'He returns from prison, he talks [about it? to them?].' \nLastly, there is one recorded case of a noun-to-verb conversion with help of applicative ko=. The noun kanggirar 'face' changes to kokanggirar 'to face'. Though this is not a prototypical app...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The kids climbed to the top of the tree. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Net...
Tumtum sara rorkeitko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The kids climbed to the top of the tree.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n...
mtob_252
{ "orig": "I'll eat you whole.", "translation": "An kat nani maoyet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000778.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg-alone mad or person=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'Did he get mad on his own or did people invite him?'\nB:\nsontum=a mat ajak\nperson=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'People invited him.' \ninterrogative clause)\nImperative clausesimperative\nImperatives are directive speech acts used for orders and commandscom...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'll eat you whole. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'll" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: big.shell Kalamang translat...
An kat nani maoyet.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'll eat you whole.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'll\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra...
mtob_270
{ "orig": "The fire was burning and she pushed it aside.", "translation": "Din susurta ma dikolko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000128.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The fire was burning and she pushed it aside. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Th...
Din susurta ma dikolko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The fire was burning and she pushed it aside.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_161
{ "orig": "Mamaria died in Tarak.", "translation": "Mamaria Torkuranggo lalat.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000714.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mamaria died in Tarak. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mamaria" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: tamarind Kalamang tra...
Mamaria Torkuranggo lalat.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mamaria died in Tarak.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mamaria\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
mtob_153
{ "orig": "Unyil walked into her mother and her mother fell.", "translation": "Unyil marmarta emunat kosara, emun tur.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000657.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nAll intransitive clauses display this pattern irrespective of whether the subject is volitional/actor or non-volitional/undergoer. Active participants such as 'they' in () are formally the same as the undergoer participants such as 'he' in () and 'grass' in (), that is, they are unmarked.\nmu k...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Unyil walked into her mother and her mother fell. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Unyil" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phra...
Unyil marmarta emunat kosara, emun tur.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Unyil walked into her mother and her mother fell.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Unyil\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di...
mtob_463
{ "orig": "I didn't even hear a voice.", "translation": "Suarabarak an ratnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000050.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n() and () illustrate the quantifying -(a)hutak seriespronoun!quantifying. In (), one speaker leaves the other during a recording session and orders her to speak further on her own. There are no others around, so the speaker is really only talking about the addressee. In (), people are discussin...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I didn't even hear a voice. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know Kalamang ...
Suarabarak an ratnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I didn't even hear a voice.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
mtob_422
{ "orig": "I saw Hidayat's father and family skin a deer.", "translation": "An kona Hidayat esun mu rusat kawaruan.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000485.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I saw Hidayat's father and family skin a deer. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I d...
An kona Hidayat esun mu rusat kawaruan.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I saw Hidayat's father and family skin a deer.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_89
{ "orig": "\"What are you doing?\" \"Nothing, I'm eating.\"", "translation": "\"Ka nebara paruotkin?\" \"Ge mera an muap teba.\"", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000218.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: "What are you doing?" "Nothing, I'm eating." To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to ""What" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: l...
"Ka nebara paruotkin?" "Ge mera an muap teba."
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: \"What are you doing?\" \"Nothing, I'm eating.\"\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"\"What\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di...
mtob_289
{ "orig": "First time they came they didn't know people yet.", "translation": "Giarun mu lukta mu tok sontumat komahal.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000227.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n() and () illustrate the quantifying -(a)hutak seriespronoun!quantifying. In (), one speaker leaves the other during a recording session and orders her to speak further on her own. There are no others around, so the speaker is really only talking about the addressee. In (), people are discussin...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: First time they came they didn't know people yet. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "First" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phra...
Giarun mu lukta mu tok sontumat komahal.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: First time they came they didn't know people yet.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"First\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di...
mtob_250
{ "orig": "Salima's father's family has one fibre boat.", "translation": "Salima esun mu fiberun kon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000621.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima's father's family has one fibre boat. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase...
Salima esun mu fiberun kon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima's father's family has one fibre boat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict...
mtob_312
{ "orig": "Binkur's father sits smoking.", "translation": "Binkur esun melalu tabaikosom deba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000664.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Binkur's father sits smoking. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Binkur's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: think Kalaman...
Binkur esun melalu tabaikosom deba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Binkur's father sits smoking.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Binkur's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_415
{ "orig": "They are sawing a canoe over there.", "translation": "Ma erat owatko aragadi.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000029.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nDirectional verbs may also be used with a subject and object argument without use of di=. In these cases, the verbs indicate ongoing movement, or have less focus on the goal of the movement and more on the movement itself. () is about climbing a coconut palm in order to pick coconuts. The focus...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They are sawing a canoe over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherl...
Ma erat owatko aragadi.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They are sawing a canoe over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_370
{ "orig": "The cat is dropping that thing.", "translation": "Sikan don met naberuai bara.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000918.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'She cut string, right, she cut [it] with her teeth.' \nAnother example comes from a narrative of which the object is tobacco, but only has tobacco in object position three times in the beginning, given in ().\nobject omission\nSu tabaiat kasi kaluar, nene mu. Tabaiat kasi kaluarkan an me kan t...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The cat is dropping that thing. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherlands ...
Sikan don met naberuai bara.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The cat is dropping that thing.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_134
{ "orig": "Mayor ordered Salima's grandfather to make a window.", "translation": "Mayora sirie Salima taraun jendela paruo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000315.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg prison.mly=obj=foc return 3sg appl=chat\n'He returns from prison, he talks [about it? to them?].' \nLastly, there is one recorded case of a noun-to-verb conversion with help of applicative ko=. The noun kanggirar 'face' changes to kokanggirar 'to face'. Though this is not a prototypical app...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mayor ordered Salima's grandfather to make a window. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mayor" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or p...
Mayora sirie Salima taraun jendela paruo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mayor ordered Salima's grandfather to make a window.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mayor\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual...
mtob_41
{ "orig": "I bathed in the sea and then I scrubbed my skin.", "translation": "An pasieko waruo eba an lamutyuon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000717.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThis is not a well-established construction, and the three other reflexive corpus examples rely on Malay loans. The Malay reflexive pronoun diri 'self' is used in those constructions, which are combined with an AustronesianAustronesian!loan loan verb natobat 'repent' (example ) or Malay loan ve...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I bathed in the sea and then I scrubbed my skin. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I...
An pasieko waruo eba an lamutyuon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I bathed in the sea and then I scrubbed my skin.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
mtob_164
{ "orig": "Our king is Atiati.", "translation": "Leit pin me Atiati.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000738.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Our king is Atiati. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Our" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: pour Kalamang translation: g...
Leit pin me Atiati.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Our king is Atiati.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Our\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phras...
mtob_253
{ "orig": "If we go to Fakfak in west wind season there are big waves.", "translation": "Kemanurpak me pi Pakpaka boet me ureren.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000517.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: If we go to Fakfak in west wind season there are big waves. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "If" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Kemanurpak me pi Pakpaka boet me ureren.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: If we go to Fakfak in west wind season there are big waves.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"If\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_198
{ "orig": "They are walking down those stairs.", "translation": "Mu but yumenggara marmari bara.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000097.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nAll intransitive clauses display this pattern irrespective of whether the subject is volitional/actor or non-volitional/undergoer. Active participants such as 'they' in () are formally the same as the undergoer participants such as 'he' in () and 'grass' in (), that is, they are unmarked.\nmu k...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They are walking down those stairs. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherl...
Mu but yumenggara marmari bara.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They are walking down those stairs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_456
{ "orig": "I smoke-dry fish.", "translation": "An sorat karuar.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000460.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther examples of spatial association are the names of certain species, especially fish species, as shown in (). The wienar 'parrotfish' is contrasted with other wienar species, such as wienar saruam 'longnose parrotfish'. It can also be used in a more general sense to group for example all fis...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I smoke-dry fish. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know Kalamang translatio...
An sorat karuar.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I smoke-dry fish.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: I...
mtob_143
{ "orig": "She knows English, I don't.", "translation": "Ma Inggrismangat gonggin, an komahal.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000298.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: She knows English, I don't. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "She" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: dry in the sun Kalam...
Ma Inggrismangat gonggin, an komahal.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: She knows English, I don't.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"She\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word ...
mtob_34
{ "orig": "Those women just sit chatting", "translation": "Emumur yume melalu garung deba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000173.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Those women just sit chatting To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Those" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: close off with p...
Emumur yume melalu garung deba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Those women just sit chatting\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Those\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_207
{ "orig": "Jafaris said he wants to rub his shirt. (He wants to wash without using a brush, just by rubbing.)", "translation": "Jafaris me toni ladanun me nakacuk teba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000931.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Jafaris said he wants to rub his shirt. (He wants to wash without using a brush, just by rubbing.) To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Jafaris" in the Kalamang...
Jafaris me toni ladanun me nakacuk teba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Jafaris said he wants to rub his shirt. (He wants to wash without using a brush, just by rubbing.)\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries ...
mtob_443
{ "orig": "The meat, the cat has eaten it from the tabletop.", "translation": "Dagim sikana sor meja kerunggoat na.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000110.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'She cut string, right, she cut [it] with her teeth.' \nAnother example comes from a narrative of which the object is tobacco, but only has tobacco in object position three times in the beginning, given in ().\nobject omission\nSu tabaiat kasi kaluar, nene mu. Tabaiat kasi kaluarkan an me kan t...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The meat, the cat has eaten it from the tabletop. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase...
Dagim sikana sor meja kerunggoat na.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The meat, the cat has eaten it from the tabletop.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict...
mtob_369
{ "orig": "Mustafa's mother and family have many squashes.", "translation": "Mustafa emun mu kasabiti reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000465.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mustafa's mother and family have many squashes. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mustafa's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ph...
Mustafa emun mu kasabiti reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mustafa's mother and family have many squashes.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mustafa's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual ...
mtob_165
{ "orig": "Moktar's father prohibited the harvest of his coconuts at Terar.", "translation": "Moktar esun Terarko warat kalour.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000381.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe most common possessive construction is created by means of the possessive suffix. I refer to this as the basic possessive construction. This construction can be used for both animate and inanimate possessors and possessed. See () with tumun 'child' and () with dowi 'seed' as the possessed, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Moktar's father prohibited the harvest of his coconuts at Terar. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Moktar's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: En...
Moktar esun Terarko warat kalour.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Moktar's father prohibited the harvest of his coconuts at Terar.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Moktar's\" in the Kalamang-En...
mtob_423
{ "orig": "Rehan's toy is broken.", "translation": "Rehan kanggeirun he ten.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000409.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nan bara komet=ta me kies-eir=tak\n1sg descend look= clflong-two=only\n'I went down to look; [there were] only two pieces.' \nma mat sei bolon∼bolon=tun\n3sg 3sg.obj askew little∼ints=ints\n'He is a tiny bit askew from it.' \nma-autak kodak∼dak=tun\n3sg-alone justone∼ints=ints\n'He was all alone...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Rehan's toy is broken. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rehan's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: hang Kalamang transla...
Rehan kanggeirun he ten.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rehan's toy is broken.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rehan's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
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{ "orig": "He is a thief. He steals stuff.", "translation": "Ma me sontum eksueren. Ma don kuek.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000164.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg prison.mly=obj=foc return 3sg appl=chat\n'He returns from prison, he talks [about it? to them?].' \nLastly, there is one recorded case of a noun-to-verb conversion with help of applicative ko=. The noun kanggirar 'face' changes to kokanggirar 'to face'. Though this is not a prototypical app...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He is a thief. He steals stuff. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: a big one Kalaman...
Ma me sontum eksueren. Ma don kuek.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He is a thief. He steals stuff.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wo...
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{ "orig": "Bobi went to Fakfak too.", "translation": "Bobinan Pakpaka bot.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000947.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTaukon 'some' and ikon 'some' appear to have the same meaning, although the former only occurs seven times in the natural spoken corpus, whereas the latter has 28 occurrences. Both can be used with animate and inanimate referents. They are illustrated modifying an animate noun in () and (). It ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bobi went to Fakfak too. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bobi" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: bilimbi Kalamang trans...
Bobinan Pakpaka bot.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bobi went to Fakfak too.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bobi\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
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{ "orig": "Suci's father's shin is wounded.", "translation": "Suci esun korusun ba patin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000654.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Suci's father's shin is wounded. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Suci's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: that's it Ka...
Suci esun korusun ba patin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Suci's father's shin is wounded.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Suci's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
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{ "orig": "Nostal is planing the inside of the canoe.", "translation": "Nostal et kanggurunara desil.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000420.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe second strategy, with the recipient marked with animate locative =konggo or lative =kongga, can be used with (at least) parin 'to sell', jie 'to buy', gerket 'to ask' and toni 'to say'. () shows an object marker on the theme and a locative marker on the pronoun. (), on the other hand, has t...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nostal is planing the inside of the canoe. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nostal" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: di...
Nostal et kanggurunara desil.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nostal is planing the inside of the canoe.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nostal\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
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{ "orig": "Burhan and his friends planted a girawar tree at the edge of the beach over there.", "translation": "Burhan mu girawarat oskol owatko kawaya.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000233.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Burhan and his friends planted a girawar tree at the edge of the beach over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Burhan" in the Kalamang-English bilingua...
Burhan mu girawarat oskol owatko kawaya.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Burhan and his friends planted a girawar tree at the edge of the beach over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Burhan\" in...