Daakaka
Facts
- Language: Daakaka
- Alternate names: Baiap, Dakaka, South Ambrym
- Language code: bpa
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Central Vanuatu, Ambrym, Orkon-Port Vato-Dakaka, Port Vato-Dakaka
- Number of speakers: 1200
- Script: Category
More information:
Introduction
Daakaka is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in South Ambrym.
Dialects
Sesivi. Several other dialects.
The Daakaka Verb
Verblist
- ate, kyer -- to bite
- bevyap -- to plant
- bungse -- to sniff, smell
- bwiline, towane -- to throw
- deng -- to cry
- dimye, nyurnyur -- to think
- domesi, simsimi -- to suck
- eli, kii -- to dig
- en -- to eat
- enmya -- to yawn
- esi -- to see
- gaapus -- to spit
- gilye, puos -- to buy
- gomu -- to hold
- gyes -- to work
- ka -- to fly
- ka -- to say
- -kote, mitye -- to split
- kuowilye -- to know, be knowledgeable
- luk -- to grow
- luwa, pisi -- to tie up, fasten
- me -- to come
- mer -- to die, be dead
- meu -- to live, be alive
- min -- to drink
- mur, tesi -- to fall
- myan -- to laugh
- nek -- to fear
- ngase -- to chew
- nii -- to hide
- oko -- to walk
- olo apyang, sóósóó apyang, tea -- to cook
- ongane -- to hear
- óte -- to hunt
- polo, poo -- to climb
- pu, wu -- to blow
- puluk, pulukte -- to count
- pupuop -- to open, uncover
- pupwer -- to lie down
- pusane -- to squeeze
- pwer esi -- to dream
- pwer myaek -- to sleep
- pyane -- to burn
- pyen, vinye -- to shoot
- s'o'ote -- to scratch
- sopsop -- to breathe
- ta, te -- to cut, hack
- -tae -- to stab, pierce
- tas -- to sit
- tinyo -- to stand
- tiye -- to kill
- tu -- to hit
- wesa -- to pound, beat
- yaase -- to turn
- yaayaa -- to swim
- yas -- to steal
- yó -- to vomit