Barok
Facts
- Language: Barok
- Alternate names: Kanalu, Kanapit, Kolube, Komalu, Kulubi
- Language code: bjk
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, Madak linkage
- Number of speakers: 2120
- Script:
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Introduction
Barok is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland, south central, east and west coasts. 15 villages.
Dialects
Barok, Usen.
The Barok Verb
Verblist
- bibio -- to burn
- ibubut -- to fear
- idos -- to squeeze
- ietos -- to swim
- igege -- to cry
- ikat -- to bite
- ikeke -- to dig
- ikisisik -- to sit
- iku -- to scratch
- ikubus -- to tie up, fasten
- ikukos -- to count
- ikuru -- to cut, hack
- ilonsik -- to hold
- imet -- to die, be dead
- imumuro -- to vomit
- ininim -- to drink
- ininin -- to suck
- inoŋnoŋon -- to laugh
- iolaŋen -- to hear
- ionan -- to walk
- iososowosik -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ipalaŋ -- to split
- ipaliso -- to sleep
- iposiŋini -- to sniff, smell
- ipulo -- to steal
- irabowanara -- to come
- irereŋe -- to say
- irororon -- to work
- isawam -- to open, uncover
- ise -- to hit
- isosoko -- to sew
- isubu -- to fall
- isusulo -- to plant
- itara -- to shoot
- itawukus -- to turn
- ite -- to stab, pierce
- itewe -- to throw
- itupuluwun -- to hunt
- itusik -- to stand
- iwawa -- to fly
- iwawara -- to see
- iyan -- to eat
- ponobo -- to dream
- wawakat -- to blow
- ya iroro -- to grow