This is aSwadesh list of words inSranan Tongo English .
For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article:Swadesh list .American linguistMorris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.
No. English Sranan 1 I mi 2 you (singular)yu ,i 3 he ,she ,it a ,en 4 we wi ,unu ,un 5 you (plural)unu ,un 6 they den 7 this disi 8 that dati 9 here dya 10 there drape 11 who suma 12 what san ,fa 13 where pe 14 when oten 15 how o ,fa 16 not no 17 all ala 18 many furu 19 some son ,wantu 20 few wanwan 21 other tra 22 one wan 23 two tu 24 three dri 25 four fo 26 five feifi 27 big bigi 28 long langa 29 wide bradi 30 thick deki 31 heavy hebi 32 small pikin 33 short syatu 34 narrow smara 35 thin fini ,mangri 36 woman uma 37 man (adult male)man 38 man (human being)sma ,libisma 39 child pikin ,pikinnengre 40 wife frow 41 husband masra 42 mother mama 43 father papa 44 animal meti 45 fish fisi 46 bird fowru 47 dog dagu 48 louse loso 49 snake sneki 50 worm woron 51 tree bon 52 forest busi 53 stick tiki 54 fruit froktu 55 seed siri ,koko 56 leaf wiwiri 57 root rutu 58 bark (of a tree)basi ,buba 59 flower bromki 60 grass grasi 61 rope titei 62 skin buba ,skin 63 meat meti 64 blood brudu 65 bone bonyo 66 fat (noun)fatu 67 egg eksi 68 horn tutu 69 tail tere 70 feather fowruwiwiri 71 hair wiwiri 72 head ede 73 ear yesi 74 eye ai 75 nose noso 76 mouth mofo 77 tooth tifi 78 tongue (organ)tongo 79 fingernail nangra 80 foot futu 81 leg futu 82 knee kindi 83 hand anu 84 wing frei 85 belly bere 86 guts kaka bere 87 neck neki 88 back baka 89 breast bobi 90 heart ati 91 liver lefre 92 todrink dringi 93 toeat nyan 94 tobite beti 95 tosuck soigi 96 tospit spiti 97 tovomit fomeri 98 toblow wai ,bro 99 tobreathe bro 100 tolaugh lafu 101 tosee si 102 tohear yere 103 toknow sabi 104 tothink denki ,prakseri 105 tosmell smeri 106 tofear frede 107 tosleep sribi 108 tolive libi 109 todie dede 110 tokill kiri 111 tofight feti ,strei 112 tohunt onti 113 tohit iti 114 tocut koti 115 tosplit priti 116 tostab dyuku 117 toscratch krabu ,krasi 118 todig diki 119 toswim swen 120 tofly frei 121 towalk waka 122 tocome kon 123 tolie (as in a bed) didon 124 tosit sidon 125 tostand tnapu ,knapu ,snapu 126 toturn (intransitive) drai 127 tofall fadon 128 togive gi 129 tohold ori 130 tosqueeze kwinsi 131 torub lobi ,wrifi 132 towash wasi ,spuru 133 towipe wrifi 134 topull hari 135 topush pusu 136 tothrow bonk ,iti 137 totie tai 138 tosew nai 139 tocount teri 140 tosay taki 141 tosing singi 142 toplay prei 143 tofloat dribi 144 toflow lon 145 tofreeze eisi 146 toswell sweri 147 sun son 148 moon mun 149 star stari 150 water watra 151 rain alen 152 river liba 153 lake duwatra 154 sea se 155 salt sowtu 156 stone ston 157 sand santi 158 dust stof 159 earth gron 160 cloud wolku 161 fog dampu 162 sky loktu 163 wind winti 164 snow snew 165 ice eisi 166 smoke smoko 167 fire faya 168 ash asisi 169 toburn bron 170 road pasi 171 mountain bergi 172 red redi 173 green grun 174 yellow geri 175 white weti 176 black blaka 177 night neti 178 day dei 179 year yari 180 warm waran 181 cold kowru 182 full furu 183 new nyun 184 old owru 185 good bun 186 bad ogri 187 rotten pori 188 dirty doti 189 straight leti 190 round lontu 191 sharp (as a knife)srapu 192 dull (as a knife)dede 193 smooth grati 194 wet nati 195 dry drei 196 correct yoisti 197 near na 198 far fara 199 right leti-anu 200 left kruktu-anu 201 at na 202 in ini 203 with nanga 204 and èn ,nanga 205 if efu 206 because bika 207 name nen
Swadesh lists Individual languages Language families, family branches, and geographic groupings Constructed languages Reconstructed proto-languages (edit this template )
Due to very limited information on the internet on this language, I am leaving my findings after many years of research:
Websters Sranan Online Dictionaryhttp://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Sranan-english/
Sranan Verb Usage Lookup Toolhttp://www.verbix.com/languages/sranantongo.shtml
Most useful guide:http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Sranan_Tongo_language
Best Sranan Site - But a little too over complicatedhttp://www.sil.org/americas/suriname/Sranan/Sranan.html
Sranan info in Dutchhttp://users.bart.nl/~kamphuys/sranantongo/
