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Recording of names of grains; rice (paddy) /saʔtʰəu²/, (Lower Wancho /taʔnik/); /gam¹/ and /ʈaʔ/ also used in Lower Wancho); foxtail millet /kã¹nik/, (/hi¹kʰã¹/ in Lower Wancho), Panicum miliaceum /ʧəla¹/, Zea mays /boŋ¹pʰe¹/ (also /pʰəkoŋ¹/, spoken in areas above Banwang’s village, Coix lacryma-jobi /ɲəpʰõ¹/, Cucumis sativus /mai¹koʔ/; Artocarpus heterophyllus /pən¹tʰoŋ¹/ (literally ‘big tree’); Papaver somniferum /kã³nəi¹/; Musa balbisiana /ŋəu²/; Colocasia esculenta /tõ²/; Manihot esculenta /kʰən¹kʰi¹/ (kʰi¹ ‘red’); general word for Taro /pən¹kʰən¹/ |