Lihir
Facts
- Language: Lihir
- Alternate names: Lir
- Language code: lih
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, Tabar linkage
- Number of speakers: 12600
- Script:
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Introduction
Lihir is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, Lihir and 3 smaller islands.
The Lihir Verb
Verblist
- a nambial -- to dream
- bolim, tutun, weh -- to cook
- dopkie -- to suck
- ersas -- to hit
- iasie -- to count
- iotie, kumzie -- to tie up, fasten
- ka -- to walk
- kalatie -- to bite
- kamiz -- to spit
- kel -- to dig
- kezte -- to sit
- korzie, makat -- to scratch
- lah -- to fly
- lan -- to hear
- lo -- to throw
- manos -- to breathe
- melam, memelam -- to sleep
- miat -- to die, be dead
- molmol -- to blow
- muninie -- to hide
- muot -- to vomit
- nansenie -- to think
- non -- to laugh
- oh -- to grow
- palmah -- to yawn
- parketan -- to know, be knowledgeable
- patzo -- to pound, beat
- pez -- to work
- peztan -- to hold
- piel -- to steal
- polie -- to buy
- puen -- to shoot
- puok -- to fall
- purazie -- to squeeze
- pusul -- to hunt
- rom -- to swell
- samapie -- to sew
- selie -- to climb
- sie -- to kill
- sio -- to plant
- so, zaktie -- to burn
- suknan -- to sniff, smell
- susul -- to swim
- taca -- to stab, pierce
- tala -- to cut, hack
- ten -- to cry
- tiar -- to see
- to -- to live, be alive
- tok -- to chew
- tute -- to stand
- weng -- to say
- wil -- to lie down
- wir -- to turn
- yak -- to come
- yen -- to eat
- yun -- to drink
- zakol -- to fear
- zap -- to open, uncover
- zirie -- to split