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kan anti vocabulary (edited as of 10-05-2025 ddmmyy)

pronouns:

1st person: an — 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: nante — wiradhuric (wiradjuri ngandhi, ngiyambaa ngandi-, gamilaraay ngaana)

particles:

subject: ka — japanese が /ga/

object: lu — korean 을 /-eul/

number: ko — sinitic (i.e. cantonese and hokkien 个, go3 and kò respectively) #sorry for the different transcription lel

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, ear: nopu — senegambian (wolof nopp, serer nof, fula nofuru)

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

4, limb: seli — greek χέρι /ˈçe.ɾi/

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

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