Baelelea
Facts
- Language: Baelelea
- Alternate names: Mbaelelea
- Language code: bvc
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira, Malaita-Makira, Malaita, Central-Northern Malaita, North Malaitan
- Number of speakers: 8800
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Baelelea is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in North Malaita island.
Dialects
Baelelea and Baeggu (See: Baeggu) almost equal intelligibility of To’abaita (See: To’abaita?) and Lau (See: Lau).
The Baelelea Verb
Verblist
- ambulo -- to turn
- āŋi -- to cry
- araŋo, sisiu -- to swim
- asia -- to fall
- fali, lea, rā, sifo -- to walk
- faŋa -- to eat
- furia, kasia, kinu -- to cut, hack
- indu -- to count
- iŋgwa -- to flow
- kamea -- to scratch
- kania -- to tie up, fasten
- kū -- to drink
- kumua -- to stab, pierce
- kwaea -- to hit
- laŋo, lofo -- to fly
- lasia -- to split
- lea mai -- to come
- mae -- to die, be dead
- maleu, mōsu -- to sleep
- manata -- to think
- maŋo -- to breathe
- mau -- to fear
- mauri, mōri -- to live, be alive
- mbeli -- to steal
- mɔkɔ -- to sniff, smell
- momoa -- to vomit
- ndau -- to hold
- noto -- to suck
- ŋgoru -- to sit
- ŋiloa -- to squeeze
- ŋisu -- to spit
- ŋwaela -- to laugh
- rao -- to work
- rikia -- to see
- roŋoa -- to hear
- rurū -- to hunt
- taia -- to sew
- takwe -- to stand
- tio -- to lie down
- ūmbu -- to swell
- ʔalea -- to bite
- ʔelia -- to dig
- ϑaea -- to say
- ϑaitomana -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ϑarufia -- to burn
- ϑaulia, ufulia -- to blow
- ϑaunia -- to kill