Emae
Facts
- Language: Emae
- Alternate names: Emai, Emwae, Mae, Mai, Mwae
- Language code: mmw
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Vanuatu-Loyalty Outliers
- Number of speakers: 400
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Emae is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Emae; Three Hills and Sesake islands. 2 villages.
The Emae Verb
Verblist
- atu/ngia -- to throw
- batu, paa, paki, te/ia, tuki/a -- to hit
- faaia, faia, fasi, seere/a, tuu -- to cut, hack
- fakaatuatu -- to think
- fanoŋo -- to hear
- fariu -- to turn
- fota/ia, romi/a -- to squeeze
- fu/fura -- to swell
- gaua -- to chew
- iroa -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kaiaa/tia -- to steal
- kakau -- to swim
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- kati/a, uti/a, utiuti -- to bite
- keina -- to eat
- keri/a -- to dig
- kutea -- to see
- maanava -- to breathe
- mamava -- to yawn
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- matofi -- to split
- mauri -- to live, be alive
- miti -- to dream
- miti/kia -- to suck
- moe -- to sleep
- mumuni -- to hide
- noo/tia -- to tie up, fasten
- nu/si -- to spit
- raku/tia -- to scratch
- re /matangi/ e engiangi -- to blow
- rere -- to fly
- ri/fia -- to shoot
- rua/kina -- to vomit
- sa/sari/ -- to flow
- saere -- to walk
- saŋa -- to work
- somo, tupu -- to grow
- soŋi -- to sniff, smell
- suki/a -- to stab, pierce
- ta/tago/-fia -- to hold
- taaua -- to count
- tagi -- to cry
- tao/na -- to cook
- to/kia -- to plant
- too -- to fall
- tui/a -- to sew
- tuki/a -- to pound, beat
- tututu, tuugia, tuutuu -- to burn
- tuu -- to stand
- v/inu -- to drink