Maisin
Facts
- Language: Maisin
- Alternate names: Maisan
- Language code: mbq
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage, North Papuan Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux linkage, Are-Taupota linkage
- Number of speakers: 2610
- Script:
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Introduction
Maisin is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Oro Province, Collingwood bay and Kosirava swamp coast villages.
Dialects
Kosirava, Maisin. No closely related languages. Lexical similarity: 73% among dialects, but little interaction between users.
The Maisin Verb
Verblist
- buro kone -- to work
- ivuruseŋ, ku|vuruseŋ -- to blow
- k|un -- to drink
- kasan -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ko -- to walk
- kok kosii -- to stab, pierce
- kokesessi -- to split
- kokkii -- to shoot
- kokomeasi -- to pound, beat
- koyavi -- to count
- ku yagin -- to climb
- ku yonki -- to hide
- ku|bagi -- to steal
- ku|faken, kuyasin -- to open, uncover
- ku|gii -- to hold
- ku|ma ssii -- to buy
- ku|mati -- to die, be dead
- ku|matu -- to sleep
- ku|mave -- to yawn
- ku|mon -- to think
- ku|nawusii -- to kill
- ku|ra -- to come
- ku|ramara -- to stand
- ku|raveresin, ku|watavisi -- to turn
- ku|roli -- to tie up, fasten
- ku|ruwa -- to hear
- ku|sasaa -- to vomit
- ku|sosonsii -- to suck
- ku|tarawusii -- to hit
- ku|tesi -- to cry
- ku|to -- to lie down
- ku|toki -- to sit
- ku|uwa -- to plant
- ku|yayonsii -- to sew
- ku|ye -- to swim
- ku|yon -- to sniff, smell
- kufe -- to fall
- kufen, kuta -- to throw
- kurufi -- to fly
- kuuasii -- to cook
- kuyaŋ -- to chew
- kw|aiton -- to cut, hack
- kw|an -- to eat
- kw|arafe -- to bite
- kw|aru -- to grow
- kw|asufe -- to spit
- kw|ayawa -- to fear
- kw|efii -- to say
- kw|iro -- to laugh
- kw|irun -- to squeeze
- kw|iti-kuve -- to choose
- kw|ittii -- to see
- kw|iyas-sii -- to dig
- kwaratti -- to burn
- kwari -- to scratch
- yan kokko -- to breathe