Mangareva
Facts
- Language: Mangareva
- Alternate names: Mangarevan
- Language code: mrv
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, Central Eastern Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 600
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Mangareva is a language of French Polynesia. It is spoken in Gambier Islands, Mangareva island, Rikitea settlement.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 75% with Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan), 73% with Marquesan (See: Marquesan, North), 72% with Tuamotuan (See: Tuamotuan), 50%–68% with Tahitian (See: Tahitian).
The Mangareva Verb
Verblist
- akahiahia
- akahotohoto
- akahuma
- kau
- mara
- turaki
- a/rua/ì -- to vomit
- agi(agi), puì -- to blow
- àka/too/, marere, topa -- to fall
- amama -- to yawn
- anuanu -- to spit
- eti -- to bite
- haga -- to work
- inu, unu -- to drink
- kai -- to eat
- kamo -- to steal
- kata -- to laugh
- kau -- to swim
- keri -- to dig
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- miti, omo -- to suck
- moe -- to sleep
- moemoeaa -- to dream
- nati, rii -- to tie up, fasten
- no'o -- to sit
- 'ogi -- to sniff, smell
- 'oko -- to buy
- pa(pa)ki, patu, tuki -- to hit
- pu/puni -- to hide
- raku/raku -- to scratch
- rere -- to fly
- rogo -- to hear
- romi/romi -- to squeeze
- ta'e -- to flow
- tagi -- to cry
- tarai -- to cut, hack
- ta'u, tutu -- to burn
- tiri -- to throw
- tui -- to sew
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- tupu -- to grow
- tuu -- to stand
- 'uki -- to stab, pierce