Aputai
Facts
- Language: Aputai
- Alternate names: Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan
- Language code: apx
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timoric A, Northern Timoric A, Wetar, Perai-Tugun-Aputai, Perai-Aputai
- Number of speakers: 150
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Aputai is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Southwest Maluku Province, 2 villages. North central Wetar island, Banda Sea coast, Ilputih village; south central Wetar, Wetar strait coast, Lurang village.
Dialects
Ilputih, Lurang, Welemur. Lexical similarity: 93% among dialects, 79% with Perai (See: Perai), 74% with Tugun (See: Tugun), 69% with Ili’uun (See: Ili’uun?), 57% with Galolen (See: Galolen?).
The Aputai Verb
Verblist
- 'ahak -- to walk
- a'mi -- to dream
- 'ega -- to kill
- 'fonuk -- to fall
- 'gale -- to stand
- 'gatan -- to scratch
- 'heu -- to bite
- 'inu -- to drink
- liuŋ -- to hear
- 'lole -- to sleep
- 'ma -- to come
- 'mali -- to laugh
- 'mate -- to die, be dead
- 'muta -- to vomit
- na'ge -- to cry
- 'nani -- to swim
- 'naoŋ -- to see
- 'nauŋ -- to know, be knowledgeable
- 'palia -- to fly
- pikpa're -- to spit
- 'tunu -- to burn
- 'tur -- to sit
- 'ua -- to eat