Maragus
Facts
- Language: Maragus
- Alternate names: Maragaus, Tape, Tobah
- Language code: mrs
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Central Vanuatu, Malakula, Western Malakula linkage, Peripheral Western Malakula, Northwestern Malakula
- Number of speakers: 15
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Maragus is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Central north Malekula.
The Maragus Verb
Verblist
- bəxəj -- to squeeze
- dədəngen -- to fear
- dəm -- to fall
- denge -- to cook
- ij -- to cry
- ip -- to blow
- is -- to bite
- jej bəri, mor, tibəs -- to split
- jej -- to cut, hack
- jəpon -- to count
- jəren -- to throw
- jiləp -- to live, be alive
- jomo -- to chew
- ləɣ -- to tie up, fasten
- lələɣ -- to sew
- liek -- to sit
- ling -- to walk
- lis -- to see
- lo, lulo -- to plant
- lu, luo -- to shoot
- luaɣ -- to vomit
- mamau -- to yawn
- mekar, mekarien -- to work
- mən -- to drink
- mes -- to die, be dead
- metər lilis -- to dream
- metər -- to sleep
- mo -- to come
- ngip -- to breathe
- rəng -- to hear
- rəngdo -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ruten -- to turn
- saxen -- to climb
- səɣ, və|tir -- to stand
- səli, vang -- to burn
- səpij, xəj -- to kill
- səren -- to swell
- səsərip -- to sniff, smell
- su, tosusuen -- to hide
- suvsip -- to swim
- tebəs -- to spit
- təməs -- to laugh
- tərəɣ -- to hunt
- tətip -- to fly
- udi -- to eat
- ul -- to buy
- uri -- to open, uncover
- use -- to hold
- vənaɣ, vənaxen -- to steal
- vərəng -- to think
- vəs, xəl -- to dig
- vwiri -- to say
- xəj -- to hit
- xəj -- to pound, beat
- xər -- to scratch