Asumboa
Facts
- Language: Asumboa
- Alternate names: Asumbua, Asumuo
- Language code: aua
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Temotu, Utupua-Vanikoro, Utupua
- Number of speakers: 10
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Asumboa is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Temotu Province, Utupua island, Asumbuo village.
The Asumboa Verb
Verblist
- ianda -- to scratch
- imale -- to live, be alive
- iveŋe -- to burn
- ka, veveŋe -- to eat
- kala -- to bite
- kata, maia -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kawe -- to turn
- kitao, neveŋo -- to fly
- koka, we2 -- to blow
- kusu -- to spit
- lala -- to laugh
- lo -- to come
- manĵi -- to lie down
- maŋĵi -- to sleep
- mbae kuli -- to hunt
- mbe, mbena, mbese, vovo -- to walk
- mbiu -- to fall
- mborei i-mende -- to kill
- mborei -- to hit
- meme -- to drink
- mende -- to fear
- mɛnde -- to die, be dead
- miŋi -- to breathe
- nduau -- to dig
- nunuosa -- to steal
- ŋa -- to suck
- ombe -- to see
- pakei, pe -- to say
- pu -- to flow
- save, tate, āpo -- to cut, hack
- sie -- to stand
- siŋi -- to cry
- sumbu -- to swell
- taembia -- to split
- tambute -- to tie up, fasten
- tevea -- to stab, pierce
- to -- to sit
- tumbute -- to hold
- vavao -- to work
- veñina -- to squeeze
- veŋe motono -- to sniff, smell
- veŋe -- to hear
- vondo -- to think
- wɔ, veko -- to swim
- ye -- to sew
- yo -- to count
- yuwa -- to vomit