Avava
Facts
- Language: Avava
- Alternate names: Katbol, Navava, Taremp, Tembimbe-Katbol, Tisvel, Vava
- Language code: tmb
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Central Vanuatu, Malakula, Western Malakula linkage, Peripheral Western Malakula, Southwestern Malakula
- Number of speakers: 700
- Vulnerability: Vulnerable [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Avava is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Central Malekula.
Dialects
Bangasa, Nevaar, Nevat, Timbembe.
The Avava Verb
Verblist
- babak -- to hide
- bari, bari borokonah -- to dream
- bbun, riit, riit bbun -- to kill
- bbur -- to swell
- bel -- to hunt
- ding, dingman -- to lie down
- dinih, dumu, dungo -- to burn
- dongon, dongongon -- to count
- dri -- to turn
- gih -- to squeeze
- il, kikil, kilkil -- to dig
- kan, rule, temetem, yanyan -- to eat
- la, labit, lala -- to see
- langlangar -- to open, uncover
- lap -- to plant
- leh -- to buy
- lik, pih -- to tie up, fasten
- lop -- to pound, beat
- lop -- to throw
- lop, vih -- to hit
- lu, luluka -- to shoot
- lualu -- to vomit
- luk -- to live, be alive
- lumlum -- to swim
- mabbuhi, sem -- to chew
- mangulal -- to yawn
- mat, mat bbun -- to die, be dead
- matak -- to fear
- matur -- to sleep
- min, minmin -- to drink
- ngar, ngar wel, welewel -- to split
- ngarngar -- to breathe
- per -- to work
- pinok, pinoki -- to steal
- prura -- to spit
- ro, robit, rong -- to hear
- robit, sungsung -- to sniff, smell
- rokut -- to know, be knowledgeable
- saksak, sasur -- to climb
- sisien -- to think
- sisih, sisihi -- to suck
- solsol -- to walk
- sum -- to sit
- suvsup, yor -- to scratch
- tami -- to fall
- tata -- to hold
- ter -- to cut, hack
- tntn -- to cook
- turi -- to stand
- ul -- to cry
- up -- to blow
- va -- to say
- vwel -- to come
- wang -- to laugh
- yalyal -- to fly
- yat, yatyat -- to bite