Efate, South
Facts
- Language: Efate, South
- Alternate names: Erakor, Fate, Southern Efate
- Language code: erk
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Central Vanuatu, Epi-Efate, Efate, South Efatic
- Number of speakers: 6000
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Efate, South is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Efate island.
The Efate, South Verb
Verblist
- faitau
- ipi
- mankotik
- mat
- entan -- to lie down
- fei -- to count
- ftom -- to grow
- kar -- to scratch
- kat -- to bite
- katsok -- to hold
- kil -- to dig
- kom -- to suck
- kus -- to hide
- lao -- to plant
- lek -- to see
- lu -- to vomit
- mai -- to come
- mar -- to breathe
- mar -- to sniff, smell
- mat -- to die, be dead
- matur -- to sleep
- min -- to drink
- m̃la -- to yawn
- m̃ol -- to live, be alive
- m̃ol -- to squeeze
- motsok -- to tie up, fasten
- mro -- to think
- mtak -- to fear
- mtalu -- to choose
- mur -- to laugh
- nep -- to throw
- nre -- to turn
- nrir -- to fly
- nrog -- to hear
- pag -- to climb
- pakot -- to buy
- pam -- to eat
- pan -- to cook
- p̃elgat -- to open, uncover
- pkafu -- to split
- plakori -- to hunt
- pnak -- to steal
- puk -- to swell
- ser -- to flow
- si -- to blow
- siwer -- to walk
- sup̃ -- to stab, pierce
- tae -- to know, be knowledgeable
- tag -- to cry
- tai -- to cut, hack
- tanu -- to spit
- tarup̃ -- to fall
- tenrtenr -- to dream
- til -- to say
- totan -- to sit
- tp̃il -- to burn
- tuleg -- to stand
- tup̃ -- to shoot
- tur -- to sew
- waf -- to swim
- walsem̃ -- to chew
- wat -- to hit
- watpun -- to kill
- weswes -- to work