Batak Karo
Facts
- Language: Batak Karo
- Alternate names: Karo Batak
- Language code: btx
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands, Batakic, Northern Batak
- Number of speakers: 600000
- Vulnerability: Dormant [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Batak Karo is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in North Sumatra Province. North central area west and northwest of Lake Toba.
Dialects
Singkil.
The Batak Karo Verb
Verblist
- idah
- karat
- keleng
- kundul
- medem
- panggang
- reh
- seren
- tangko
- tukur
- tunduh
- (er-)tukur -- to buy
- (n)cikep -- to hold
- (ng)embus -- to blow
- (ng)geluh -- to live, be alive
- (ng)gergo -- to scratch
- (ng)idah -- to see
- (ng)kali -- to dig
- (ng)karat -- to bite
- akap -- to think
- ala -- to turn
- ambek(ken) -- to throw
- aru até -- to fear
- begi -- to hear
- beluh -- to know, be knowledgeable
- cepcep -- to suck
- ci-ligen-i -- to hide
- cinder -- to stand
- dabu -- to fall
- dalin-dalin -- to walk
- er-buru -- to hunt
- er-cidur -- to spit
- er-juma -- to work
- er-kesah -- to breathe
- er-kira -- to count
- er-nipi -- to dream
- getap -- to cut, hack
- jebal -- to swell
- juën -- to grow
- kabang -- to fly
- ke-hayam-en -- to yawn
- keneng -- to swim
- kundul -- to sit
- malir -- to flow
- maté -- to die, be dead
- minem -- to drink
- munuh -- to kill
- mutah -- to vomit
- nangkih -- to climb
- ngakngak -- to cry
- ngampen -- to tie up, fasten
- ngatngat -- to chew
- ng-eltep -- to shoot
- ni- -- to say
- ongkam -- to open, uncover
- pan -- to eat
- pedem -- to lie down
- pekpek -- to hit
- peldas -- to squeeze
- pilih -- to choose
- rëh -- to come
- sanggeh -- to sniff, smell
- selkut -- to burn
- semet -- to sew
- suan -- to plant
- takal -- to split
- tangger -- to cook
- tangko -- to steal
- tawa -- to laugh
- tikam -- to stab, pierce
- tunduh -- to sleep
- tutu -- to pound, beat