Abadi
Facts
- Language: Abadi
- Alternate names: Gabadi, Kabadi
- Language code: kbt
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Peripheral Papuan Tip linkage, Central Papuan Oceanic, West Central Papuan linkage
- Number of speakers: 4300
- Script:
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Introduction
Abadi is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Central Province, north of Galley reach.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 53% with Toura (See: Toura) (most similar).
The Abadi Verb
Verblist
- ? nagunava -- to cook
- ainugu -- to spit
- akuni -- to kill
- aniani -- to eat
- aramuku -- to chew
- e a vava -- to stand
- e diareva -- to cry
- e isa'aku -- to know, be knowledgeable
- e miadova -- to sit
- e ourarova -- to say
- e ragoidava -- to plant
- ea biava -- to hold
- eabanava -- to hunt
- e'aobaobaova -- to yawn
- e'e'isava -- to dig
- e'enova -- to sleep
- ega'i nava -- to shoot
- egainava -- to stab, pierce
- egana, ganagerea -- to walk
- eidundava -- to squeeze
- einiviva -- to dream
- e'ironava -- to turn
- ekoava -- to blow
- ekubuva -- to grow
- ekurinava -- to sew
- emai -- to come
- emekauva -- to fear
- enogoriava -- to suck
- eorinava -- to scratch
- epaurova -- to work
- epodinava -- to tie up, fasten
- erorova -- to swell
- erova -- to fly
- eukunava -- to cut, hack
- e'urava -- to vomit
- eva'auva'auva -- to count
- evaiakuva -- to hit
- evainaiva -- to laugh
- evainaorava -- to steal
- eviunava -- to throw
- geo -- to die, be dead
- inu -- to drink
- isa -- to see
- maga'a -- to sniff, smell
- mauri-mauri -- to live, be alive
- nau -- to swim
- ono -- to hear
- rei deva vada -- to burn
- unini, vo amouru, vo unin -- to hide
- vaiara -- to bite
- vo gaia -- to climb
- vo gavana -- to buy
- vo keona -- to open, uncover
- vo vaida-asi -- to fall
- vo-gai -- to flow
- vora -- to think