Nukuoro
Facts
- Language: Nukuoro
- Alternate names: Nuguor, Nukoro
- Language code: nkr
- 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, Carolinean Outlier Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 860
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Nukuoro is a language of Micronesia. It is spoken in Nukuoro island, Pohnpei, Caroline Islands. Also in United States.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 55% with Kapingamarangi (See: Kapingamarangi).
The Nukuoro Verb
Verblist
- àmu, modu, sele, tuu -- to cut, hack
- angi, busi, s/sau/ -- to blow
- badu, bagi/a, daa, dugi -- to hit
- baini gi lalo -- to lie down
- daa -- to kill
- daalo, daalo/a, sugi -- to stab, pierce
- dangi -- to cry
- dao -- to cook
- dau -- to count
- doo -- to plant
- dudu, duungia -- to burn
- dugi -- to pound, beat
- dui -- to sew
- duu -- to stand
- gada -- to laugh
- gadi -- to bite
- gage -- to climb
- gai -- to eat
- gaiaa -- to steal
- geli -- to dig
- gide -- to see
- haga/lue/ia -- to vomit
- hage, huli -- to turn
- haihegao -- to work
- haka/taahao, saele, sesee -- to walk
- hau, noa -- to tie up, fasten
- he/songi/, tuŋa -- to sniff, smell
- hili -- to choose
- hu mai -- to come
- ilo/o -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kumi -- to squeeze
- la/aladi/, lagu -- to scratch
- lele -- to fly
- longo -- to hear
- maanadu -- to think
- maava -- to yawn
- madagu -- to fear
- made -- to die, be dead
- maga -- to throw
- mahuge -- to open, uncover
- manava -- to breathe
- midi -- to dream
- midi -- to suck
- mmuni -- to hide
- moe -- to sleep
- ngau, ngungu -- to chew
- noho -- to sit
- sali -- to flow
- somo -- to grow
- tili -- to shoot
- unu -- to drink