Baeggu
Facts
- Language: Baeggu
- Alternate names: Baegu, Mbaenggu
- Language code: bvd
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira, Malaita-Makira, Malaita, Central-Northern Malaita, North Malaitan
- Number of speakers: 5900
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Baeggu is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in North Malaita island.
Dialects
Baelelea (See: Baelelea) and Baeggu almost equal intelligibility of To’abaita (See: To’abaita?) and Lau (See: Lau).
The Baeggu Verb
Verblist
- akɔ, saru -- to burn
- alea, ʔala -- to bite
- ani, faŋa -- to eat
- āŋi -- to cry
- arɔŋɔ, taunɔni -- to swim
- asia -- to fall
- faiarasi, nani -- to hunt
- fali, kai lea, lea alā, lea tɔli -- to walk
- fane, umbu -- to swell
- fɔlea, fɔŋgea -- to split
- furia, kinu, sikilia, tamba -- to cut, hack
- indu -- to count
- iŋgwa -- to flow
- kamea, karasia -- to scratch
- kania -- to tie up, fasten
- kari ambulɔ -- to turn
- kū -- to drink
- kumulia -- to stab, pierce
- kwae -- to hit
- laŋɔ, lɔfɔ, sisimi -- to fly
- lea mai -- to come
- liɔtoi, suai -- to see
- mae -- to die, be dead
- maleu -- to sleep
- manata -- to think
- maŋɔ -- to breathe
- mau -- to fear
- mbeli -- to steal
- mɔkɔfia -- to sniff, smell
- mɔmɔa -- to vomit
- mɔri, mori -- to live, be alive
- nɔtɔfia -- to suck
- ndau -- to hold
- ŋgɔru -- to sit
- ŋilɔa -- to squeeze
- ŋisu -- to spit
- ŋwaela -- to laugh
- raɔa -- to work
- rɔŋɔ -- to hear
- saea -- to say
- saitɔmana -- to know, be knowledgeable
- sauŋia -- to kill
- taia -- to sew
- tiɔ -- to lie down
- ū -- to stand
- ufia, ufuufu -- to blow
- ʔeli -- to dig