Anuta
Facts
- Language: Anuta
- Alternate names:
- Language code: aud
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 270
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Anuta is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Anuta island.
The Anuta Verb
Verblist
- aere -- to walk
- anu -- to spit
- au -- to come
- inu -- to drink
- iroa, poto -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ka/kau, kakau -- to swim
- kai -- to eat
- kaia, kaia/kaiaa -- to steal
- kake -- to climb
- kamu -- to chew
- karaŋa -- to say
- kata -- to laugh
- kati -- to bite
- kenu, keri -- to dig
- koii -- to scratch
- kuku -- to hold
- kukumi, tatau -- to squeeze
- maanatu -- to think
- maanava -- to breathe
- mamata -- to see
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mauri, ma-uri, ora -- to live, be alive
- miti -- to dream
- miti -- to suck
- moe -- to sleep
- motu -- to cut, hack
- mu/muni/ -- to hide
- nanamu -- to sniff, smell
- ngarue -- to work
- nonoo, pau -- to tie up, fasten
- nopo -- to sit
- pai, papai -- to split
- para, turi -- to hunt
- peepee, peiia -- to throw
- pu/pui/ -- to blow
- puri -- to turn
- rau, ta/tau -- to count
- remo -- to fall
- rere -- to fly
- roŋo -- to hear
- rua -- to vomit
- ta mate -- to kill
- ta/tara -- to open, uncover
- taa, tuki -- to hit
- takoto -- to lie down
- tangi -- to cry
- tao -- to cook
- tapu, tungia, tutu -- to burn
- tatape -- to flow
- taui -- to buy
- titina -- to sew
- toka/i, tokai -- to stab, pierce
- too -- to plant
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- tupu -- to grow
- tuu -- to stand
- ūra -- to swell