idaechop — 5/10/2025, 4:38:22 PM

kan anti main vocab (edited as of 14-05-2025 ddmmyy)

pronouns:

1st person : en — ugric (hungarian én, mansi ам)

2nd person : we — volta-congo (swahili -we, ewe -wò, akan wo-, and im too lazy to find another example)

3rd person : una — inuit (inuktitut una, greenlandic una)

demonstrative : se — finnic (finnish se, estonian see, võro seo)

interrogative : nanti — wiradhuric (wiradjuri ngandhi, ngiyambaa ngandi-, gamilaraay ngaana)

particles:

subject : ka — japanese が /ga/

object : lu — korean 을 /-eul/

number : ko — sinitic 个 (cantonese go3 /kɔː³³/ or hokkien kò /ko¹¹/)

compound-word marker : ti … jen — tai (thai ที่ /tʰiː˥˩/, shan တီႈ /tiː˧˧˨/, lao ທີ່ /tʰiː˧˨/) and germanic (dutch -en, german -en, english -en, frisian -je) #only to be used if a phrase needs disambiguating, similar to “pi” in toki pona

numerals: [always start with “ko” due to the fact they also mean body parts]

0, nothing : kijo — western muskogean (choctaw kíyo, chickasaw ki’yo)

1, nose : eno — borôroan (borôro eno)

2, rib, side : pijali — sami (lule sami bielle, northern sami bealli, ter sami pielle)

3, bend : kulupo — cushitic (afar gulub, oromo jilba, somali jilib, haddiyah gurubbo)

4, limb : seli — greek χέρι /ˈçe.ɾi/

5, extremity : lima — malayo-polynesian (literally just see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/lima)

6, back : kepa — tibetan སྒལ་པ /kɛː˩˨.paˑ/