Minangkabau
Facts
- Language: Minangkabau
- Alternate names: Minang, Padang
- Language code: min
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Sumbawan, North and East Malayo-Sumbawan, Malayic, Nuclear Malayic, Minangkabauic
- Number of speakers: 5530000
- Script:
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Introduction
Minangkabau is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Widespread in the Indonesian Archipelago; west central Sumatra Province, Padang area. Nearly half live outside central Sumatra; South Sumatra, west coast Mukomuko area.
Dialects
Agam, Aneuk Jamee (Jamee), Batu Sangkar-Pariangan, Kerinci-Minangkabau, Orang Mamak, Pajokumbuh, Pancuang Soal (Muko-Muko), Penghulu, Si Junjung, Singkarak, Tanah, Ulu. Not intelligible with Indonesian (See: Indonesian). Pekal (See: Pekal) may be intelligible with Minangkabau.
The Minangkabau Verb
Verblist
- baco
- bakecek
- bukak
- danga
- ditulak
- karajo
- kecek
- lapah
- manangih
- mangecek
- manulak
- tau
- tulak
- utaro
- baaŋoʔ -- to breathe
- baburu -- to hunt
- bagoleʔ -- to lie down
- bajalan -- to walk
- bakarajo -- to work
- bapikie -- to think
- baranaŋ -- to swim
- barasian -- to dream
- burambuih -- to blow
- duduaʔ -- to sit
- galaʔ -- to laugh
- iduiʔ -- to grow
- iduiʔ -- to live, be alive
- jatuah -- to fall
- keloʔ -- to turn
- kuoʔ -- to yawn
- laloʔ -- to sleep
- maetoŋ -- to count
- maidu -- to sniff, smell
- mailie -- to flow
- maisoʔ -- to suck
- makan -- to eat
- malieʔ -- to see
- maliue -- to spit
- mamaeiʔ -- to hold
- mamasaʔ -- to cook
- mambaeka... -- to throw
- mambaka -- to burn
- mambalah -- to split
- mambali -- to buy
- mambaŋka -- to swell
- mambuka -- to open, uncover
- mambunuah -- to kill
- mamilieh -- to choose
- mananam -- to plant
- manaŋih -- to cry
- manciloʔ -- to steal
- mandaŋa -- to hear
- mandoʔ -- to hide
- manembaʔ -- to shoot
- mangabeʔ -- to tie up, fasten
- manikam -- to stab, pierce
- manjaiʔ -- to sew
- manokoʔ -- to hit
- manumbua... -- to pound, beat
- maŋali -- to dig
- maŋareʔ -- to cut, hack
- maŋeceʔ -- to say
- maŋgauiʔ -- to scratch
- maŋgigiʔ -- to bite
- maŋuñah -- to chew
- maramoh -- to squeeze
- mati -- to die, be dead
- minun -- to drink
- mutah -- to vomit
- naiaʔ -- to climb
- tabaŋ -- to fly
- tagaʔ -- to stand
- takuiʔ -- to fear
- tau -- to know, be knowledgeable
- tibo -- to come