Lawunuia
Facts
- Language: Lawunuia
- Alternate names: Nagarege, Nagarige, Naghareghe, Piva
- Language code: tgi
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, Banoni-Piva
- Number of speakers: 550
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Lawunuia is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, Piva river.
Dialects
Amun.
The Lawunuia Verb
Verblist
- atuna -- to kill
- bururu -- to fly
- butia -- to steal
- ebunava -- to buy
- ghabo -- to sniff, smell
- gholasia -- to open, uncover
- gona -- to sit
- kabea -- to sew
- kanata -- to bite
- kapurona -- to lie down
- katoa -- to see
- kekaru -- to cook
- kepene -- to swim
- kinai -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kinogo -- to spit
- ku -- to drink
- kúm -- to shoot
- kúm -- to stab, pierce
- mate -- to die, be dead
- minago -- to fear
- mosoa -- to hold
- nebea -- to plant
- nongono -- to hear
- numai -- to come
- nuvuna -- to throw
- pasia -- to count
- pepeghi -- to cut, hack
- pisu -- to squeeze
- poai to tsuangiana -- to choose
- podongo -- to fall
- potakia -- to split
- sabiri -- to live, be alive
- taberu -- to turn
- taghana -- to walk
- tam -- to eat
- tanisi -- to cry
- tatara -- to dream
- tee -- to sleep
- tsiboria kirono -- to tie up, fasten
- tsopughu -- to blow
- tsua -- to pound, beat
- tsughonu -- to stand
- tsugia -- to dig
- tsumoko -- to burn
- tubu -- to swell
- vidagha -- to say
- vikinai -- to think
- vimai -- to laugh
- vimatakono -- to scratch
- vimuta -- to vomit
- vitoa -- to hit
- viwoka -- to work
- wakavinu -- to hunt
- wakoi -- to suck
- wapikupiku -- to flow
- wughasa -- to breathe