Seke
Facts
- Language: Seke
- Alternate names: Ske
- Language code: ske
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Central Vanuatu, South Pentecost, Seke-Sowa
- Number of speakers: 300
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Seke is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Pentecost island.
The Seke Verb
Verblist
- bistêrê -- to burn
- -bli -- to count
- boze, vuti -- to tie up, fasten
- dal, dalê -- to cut, hack
- dalpre -- to split
- deng -- to cry
- dodme -- to think
- dok -- to sit
- du sehrek -- to hide
- du -- to stand
- gak -- to fly
- gal -- to climb
- gan, -gne -- to eat
- gasur -- to spit
- gat, -gzê -- to bite
- gavre -- to scratch
- gil, -gli -- to dig
- -gle -- to buy
- -glia -- to know, be knowledgeable
- -gro -- to hunt
- -hlo, solsol -- to sew
- le lo- -- to choose
- le mat -- to dream
- le, -lsê -- to see
- lô -- to vomit
- loh -- to swim
- -lpwa -- to shoot
- man -- to laugh
- mat -- to die, be dead
- me -- to come
- min, -mni -- to drink
- mur -- to grow
- mur -- to live, be alive
- -mzek -- to fear
- -mzôr -- to sleep
- ôh pni -- to kill
- ôm -- to work
- -ôsê -- to hit
- rah, rahnê -- to steal
- rangê -- to cook
- reh -- to swell
- rir -- to flow
- riv, vu -- to blow
- -rngo bo- -- to sniff, smell
- -rngo, rong -- to hear
- -rvu -- to plant
- sangvi -- to open, uncover
- sêbnê -- to throw
- su -- to stab, pierce
- urut -- to walk
- veh -- to fall
- -vne -- to say
- -vsi -- to hold
- vwihnê -- to squeeze
- we -- to lie down