Thao
Facts
- Language: Thao
- Alternate names: Chui-Huan, Chuihwan, Sao, Sau, Shao, Suihwan, Vulung
- Language code: ssf
- Language family: Austronesian, Western Plains Austronesian
- Number of speakers: 5
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Thao is a language of Taiwan. It is spoken in Central, Sun Moon Lake southeast shore, Te-hua village, and Ta-p’ing-lin 14 km away.
Dialects
Brawbaw, Shtafari.
The Thao Verb
Verblist
- canit
- lhthkizin
- lhupish
- mabrith
- mahnar
- c-m-anit -- to cry
- damriz -- to squeeze
- fariw -- to buy
- h-m-adu -- to hold
- i-lhilhi -- to stand
- kadaduk -- to choose
- k-m-an -- to eat
- k-m-ari -- to dig
- k-m-ay p-acay -- to kill
- k-m-ay -- to hit
- k-m-irkir -- to bite
- k-m-ulhaw -- to scratch
- k-m-uza -- to say
- k-un-riu -- to steal
- k-un-tun -- to cut, hack
- kuruz -- to hide
- lh-m-irik -- to stab, pierce
- lh-um-fawa -- to swell
- lh-uŋ-quz -- to grow
- ma-cacawa -- to laugh
- m-acay -- to die, be dead
- ma-fazaq -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ma-filhaq -- to spit
- maka-runu -- to pound, beat
- makurada -- to climb
- ma-lhacak -- to fall
- malhuiza -- to plant
- malhus -- to sleep
- maŋ-qaruz -- to flow
- m-aŋqtu -- to think
- ma-papak -- to chew
- ma-qalhtash -- to live, be alive
- marfaz -- to fly
- ma-shushuaw -- to yawn
- matiashaq -- to dream
- mi-lhuŋqu -- to sit
- mi-qilha -- to drink
- m-iup -- to blow
- m-rauz -- to swim
- m-rikaz -- to see
- mu-buhat -- to work
- mu-nay -- to come
- mun-dadán -- to walk
- mu-ribush -- to hunt
- m-utaq -- to vomit
- palatatnur -- to shoot
- panaq -- to throw
- pan-taqnar -- to lie down
- pit'ia -- to cook
- q-m-ucquc -- to tie up, fasten
- sh-m-aqish -- to sew
- sh-m-azik -- to sniff, smell
- sh-m-inaw -- to breathe
- sh-u-nara -- to burn
- sh-uŋ-kash -- to fear
- shupilh -- to count
- tau-shuqish -- to turn
- t-m-alhtalh -- to split
- t-m-ana -- to open, uncover
- t-un-maza -- to hear
- ucuc -- to suck