Maleu-Kilenge
Facts
- Language: Maleu-Kilenge
- Alternate names: Idne
- Language code: mgl
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage
- Number of speakers: 5200
- Script:
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Introduction
Maleu-Kilenge is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in West New Britain Province, Talasea district west tip.
Dialects
Kilenge (Kaitarolea), Maleu. Lexical similarity: 93% between Maleu and Kilenge dialects.
The Maleu-Kilenge Verb
Verblist
- alke -- to breathe
- ḇaḇa -- to burn
- ḇiḇe, pise -- to squeeze
- ḇira -- to climb
- ḇul -- to say
- ǥale -- to stab, pierce
- ǥanaie -- to throw
- ǥune -- to plant
- in -- to drink
- kalak -- to bite
- kamokamoke -- to scratch
- kan -- to eat
- kanake -- to hit
- keḇe -- to work
- kelke -- to dig
- kisike -- to hold
- kole -- to buy
- kono -- to lie down
- kono -- to sleep
- konoḇiḇita -- to dream
- kop -- to steal
- kou -- to hide
- koukouke -- to tie up, fasten
- kunia, loŋo -- to sniff, smell
- lala -- to walk
- lei -- to see
- lele -- to flow
- liḇoke, pakoke -- to open, uncover
- loŋo -- to hear
- lou -- to fly
- mai -- to come
- malalua -- to vomit
- mamata -- to live, be alive
- maŋmaŋe -- to hunt
- mari -- to stand
- matampua -- to choose
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mate -- to sit
- motou -- to fear
- nautut -- to cut, hack
- nine -- to count
- ŋiŋ -- to laugh
- ôtai -- to know, be knowledgeable
- pale -- to split
- palŋaŋŋa -- to yawn
- pamateŋe -- to kill
- panake -- to shoot
- pos -- to fall
- poue -- to pound, beat
- pula -- to spit
- remo -- to think
- saman -- to cook
- seiseike -- to sew
- soue -- to blow
- su -- to suck
- taŋ -- to cry
- tup -- to grow
- uaǥɛn -- to swim
- uiue -- to swell
- uouo -- to chew