SPECIMENS OF THE DIALECTS OP TIMOR 
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being quite unfitted for the explanation of abstract ideas, and no 
greater proof of its meagreness is required than the fact that one 
single term is employed to indicate circumstances that have only an 
indirect affinity. For instance, “ old” and u poor” are expressed by 
the same word, “ naikl&ier.” 
The system of orthography for dialects that possess no written 
character has now become so well established, that it is scarcely ne¬ 
cessary to give the power of the different vowels ; a is pronounced as 
in father ; c as in ever, e' (with an accent) as the ey in they; i as in 
ravine, and u is invariably to be pronounced in the continental man¬ 
ner, like the ou in soup. The comma between two vowels as in “ ko- 
ka’al” indicates a slight guttural which no letter in our alphabet is 
calculated to express. The accent is always on 
the penultimate, un- 
less the contrary is indicated. 
A, an 
ita, ida. 
Bathe 
naroho. 
Abide 
namomoli. 
Bay 
holok. 
Accept 
koka’al. 
Be 
aile. 
Accompany 
leunohi. 
Beard 
wehin wulu. 
Aged 
naik leher. 
Beat 
nereh^v. 
Agreeable 
namini. 
Beautiful 
maruru. 
All 
na’akemi. 
Become 
nambali. 
Alive 
mori-mori. 
Bee 
wanyi. 
Alligator 
lawoor. 
Beg 
uapanak. 
Anger 
uahan. 
Bett'y 
konoin. 
Ant 
keirsi. 
Bent 
napal£hu. 
Areca nut 
poor. 
Better 
wahanrehi. 
Arm 
liman. 
Bind 
na’akdri. 
Ashamed 
nawawa. 
Bird 
manu. 
Ashes 
apu. 
Bite 
nihi. 
Ask 
maukani. 
Black 
m^kin. 
Assist 
pahkur. 
Blind 
makantdk. 
Blood 
ra’arn. 
Back 
ko’orn. 
Blow (to) 
mowa. 
Bad 
ailandi. 
Blue 
makomak. 
Bald 
ulu-por. 
Board (plank) awahan. 
Bamboo 
oho. 
Body 
kemcn. 
Bargain 
tawar. 
Boil (to) 
na’ali. 
Bark (as a 
dog) ahu kour. 
Bold 
nahuhuru. 
Basket 
ipun. 
Bone 
ruhuriii. 
