Buli
Facts
- Language: Buli
- Alternate names:
- Language code: bzq
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Greater SHWNG, South Halmahera-West New Guinea, Raja Ampat-South Halmahera, South Halmahera, Central-Eastern South Halmahera
- Number of speakers: 2520
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Buli is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in North Maluku Province, 3 villages. Central Halmahera, Buli bay, north shore.
Dialects
Buli, Wayamli (Jawanli, Wajamli).
The Buli Verb
Verblist
- [n]dak -- to cook
- ab, oat, tekis -- to cut, hack
- agél, oŋ -- to bite
- ahlēŋ, pakpak -- to lie down
- am-cait -- to fear
- amlif -- to laugh
- amolol, toy -- to turn
- ān -- to eat
- apas[a] -- to spit
- balat, pitan -- to tie up, fasten
- bos -- to swell
- cut, ta, tok -- to pound, beat
- dawil, gewit -- to climb
- diŋ -- to sew
- dom -- to drink
- etaŋ -- to count
- fa-mat, pun -- to kill
- fān ronda -- to hunt
- fān -- to walk
- fatan -- to sniff, smell
- fawa -- to breathe
- fisan -- to choose
- forār -- to squeeze
- gāg -- to scratch
- gogan -- to hide
- gon -- to buy
- làfa -- to come
- lois -- to steal
- lolam -- to think
- loŋa -- to hear
- mafŋél -- to dream
- mamaip -- to yawn
- mat -- to die, be dead
- mgini -- to burn
- moŋ -- to chew
- muta -- to vomit
- niŋa, ēm -- to see
- opa -- to fly
- osal -- to stand
- pawil -- to fall
- pei manara -- to work
- pun -- to hit
- pusi -- to shoot
- sagu, tusa -- to stab, pierce
- salawe -- to open, uncover
- segal -- to split
- soraf, sus -- to suck
- taŋis -- to cry
- tig -- to throw
- tiu -- to dig
- tiwa -- to plant
- tō -- to know, be knowledgeable
- totoláŋ -- to sit
- tub -- to grow
- tub -- to live, be alive
- tuli -- to sleep
- u -- to say
- uf[o] -- to blow
- yas -- to swim
- yoli -- to flow