Bilbil
Facts
- Language: Bilbil
- Alternate names: Bilibil
- Language code: brz
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage, Bel-Roinji-Nenaya, Bel, Western Bel
- Number of speakers: 1250
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Bilbil is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Madang Province, coast just south of Madang town.
The Bilbil Verb
Verblist
- abi, -nonou, -pipi -- to squeeze
- -ani -- to eat
- au, -la, -tor -- to walk
- -basasali -- to split
- -biliani, bol -- to say
- -bira -- to throw
- -buli, daŋsa -- to turn
- -didi -- to swell
- -en -- to sleep
- -hui bibi, -polude -- to blow
- -huni -- to kill
- i/man/de -- to live, be alive
- -iwa -- to laugh
- -lele -- to see
- -log -- to swim
- -loŋ -- to hear
- -lu -- to vomit
- -mamari, -nai -- to cook
- -mand -- to sit
- -mat -- to die, be dead
- -mu -- to drink
- -musi -- to suck
- nani -- to burn
- nteŋe(nn), -ta -- to cry
- -pan, -pene -- to shoot
- -pasi -- to open, uncover
- -piai -- to plant
- -pou -- to tie up, fasten
- ragalek -- to scratch
- -rer -- to fear
- -riu -- to hit
- -ro -- to fly
- ruŋan -- to sniff, smell
- -sa -- to come
- -sara -- to dig
- -tale -- to cut, hack
- -tor -- to hunt
- -toroti -- to stab, pierce
- uran -- to spit
- urat-nouda -- to work
- -yabi -- to hold
- yaiŋ -ŋal- -- to breathe