Penrhyn
Facts
- Language: Penrhyn
- Alternate names: Mangarongaro, Penrhynese, Tongareva
- Language code: pnh
- 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: 200
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Penrhyn is a language of Cook Islands. It is spoken in Northern Cook Islands, Penrhyn Island.
Dialects
Almost intelligible with Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan).
The Penrhyn Verb
Verblist
- akatangata
- akatāne
- akavahine
- mona
- taero
- āfa
- anga -- to work
- aŋiaŋi -- to blow
- haamama -- to yawn
- hana -- to shoot
- hiitiki, nati -- to tie up, fasten
- hiri -- to choose
- hoko -- to buy
- huri, p/ahe -- to turn
- inu -- to drink
- ka/kati -- to bite
- kai -- to eat
- kaiaa -- to steal
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- kau -- to swim
- keri -- to dig
- kite -- to know, be knowledgeable
- koopiri -- to hide
- kuku, tango -- to hold
- manako -- to think
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- moe -- to sleep
- moemoeaa -- to dream
- ngau -- to chew
- ngote -- to suck
- noho -- to sit
- ŋa/haa -- to split
- ora -- to live, be alive
- paatia -- to stab, pierce
- patu, sasa, tuki -- to hit
- peehua -- to throw
- puku -- to swell
- ra/raku/ -- to scratch
- rere -- to fly
- ro/romi -- to squeeze
- rongo -- to hear
- rua/ki -- to vomit
- saere -- to walk
- singa -- to fall
- songi -- to sniff, smell
- sura -- to open, uncover
- suupee -- to spit
- ta/tau -- to count
- taa -- to kill
- tahe -- to flow
- tahu -- to burn
- takoto -- to lie down
- tangi -- to cry
- tanu -- to plant
- tarai, va/vasi/ -- to cut, hack
- too -- to cook
- tui -- to sew
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- tupu -- to grow
- tuu -- to stand