’Auhelawa
Facts
- Language: ’Auhelawa
- Alternate names: Kurada, Nuakata, Ulada, ’Urada
- Language code: kud
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage, Suauic
- Number of speakers: 1200
- Script:
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Introduction
’Auhelawa is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Milne Bay Province, Sehuleya district, Normanby island.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 52% with Duau (See: Duau?) (most similar).
The ’Auhelawa Verb
Verblist
- mweluluwa
- 'ai -- to eat
- 'aiyawasi -- to lie down
- alahi -- to burn
- benali -- to hear
- be'u -- to fall
- dawani -- to hide
- eno -- to sleep
- gimwane -- to buy
- goha -- to hit
- hanapu -- to know, be knowledgeable
- hugu -- to swim
- ita -- to see
- lao -- to walk
- laogabae -- to throw
- laoma -- to come
- liga -- to cook
- meheui -- to fear
- miya -- to sit
- mwala'e -- to climb
- mwala'e -- to grow
- mwalowoi -- to die, be dead
- numa -- to drink
- nuwatu -- to think
- paihowa -- to work
- sagena -- to flow
- towolo -- to live, be alive
- towolo -- to stand
- umai -- to plant
- vaivahala -- to steal
- walo -- to say
- wunu -- to kill
- yanovi -- to sniff, smell
- yuvi -- to breathe