Damar, West
Facts
- Language: Damar, West
- Alternate names: North Damar
- Language code: drn
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Babar
- Number of speakers: 800
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Damar, West is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Southeast Maluku Province, 2 villages. Northeast of Timor island, east of Roma island; Damar island, north side.
Dialects
Not intelligible of East Damar (See: Damar, East).
The Damar, West Verb
Verblist
- ja'dono -- to cry
- 'jemmo -- to fly
- jɛm'riri -- to stand
- jɛnnun'nuni -- to swim
- 'jɛpti -- to spit
- 'katlo -- to scratch
- 'ktunni -- to burn
- 'lakto -- to walk
- ma'tunni -- to sleep
- 'moi -- to come
- 'moto -- to die, be dead
- 'nadi -- to fall
- ot'kiki -- to bite
- 'tavtʃo -- to eat
- 'vimjo -- to drink
- 'vito -- to see
- wa'dano -- to hear
- wa'moli -- to laugh
- wa'muto -- to vomit
- wa'wathono -- to sit
- wuŋhi -- to kill
- wut'hono -- to know, be knowledgeable