Damar, East
Facts
- Language: Damar, East
- Alternate names: South Damar
- Language code: dmr
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timoric A, Northern Timoric A
- Number of speakers: 2800
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Damar, East is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Southeast Maluku Province, 6 villages. Northeast of Timor island, east of Roma island; Damar island, east side.
Dialects
Not intelligible of West Damar (See: Damar, West).
The Damar, East Verb
Verblist
- ə ṇ'nani -- to swim
- gam'dudu -- to sleep
- game'nan -- to eat
- gat'lin -- to hear
- ga'tu -- to know, be knowledgeable
- 'giʔi -- to bite
- go'mun -- to drink
- go'ven -- to see
- ṃ'mai -- to come
- ṃ'mali -- to laugh
- ṃ'mat -- to die, be dead
- ṃ'mut -- to vomit
- ṃ'pap -- to sit
- nam'briri -- to stand
- 'napri -- to spit
- 'ɲatə -- to dream
- ne'wur -- to scratch
- 'nɛm -- to fly
- ṇ'laʔat -- to walk
- ṇve'dan -- to kill
- 'ou -- to cry
- 'taiwou -- to fall
- 'tʰunu -- to burn