Fataleka

Introduction

Fataleka is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Malaita island.

Dialects

Dialect of To’abaita (See: To’abaita?) (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Intelligibility of Baeggu variety of To’abaita reportedly high, but of To’abaita much less. Lexical similarity: 82% with Kwara’ae (See: Kwara’ae?), 76% with Lau (See: Lau).

The Fataleka Verb

Verblist

• abulo -- to turn
• akofia -- to burn
• ania -- to eat
• aŋi -- to cry
• asia -- to fall
• beli -- to steal
• busā -- to stab, pierce
• dauana -- to hold
• fala, furiaoko, kenu, kwaeai -- to cut, hack
• fali, leka, leka ala, leka toli -- to walk
• felesia -- to squeeze
• gaʔa -- to laugh
• gwini, sisiu -- to swim
• idumia -- to count
• igwā -- to flow
• kaeai -- to hit
• kamea -- to scratch
• kania -- to tie up, fasten
• kū -- to drink
• laŋɔ -- to fly
• leka mai -- to come
• mae -- to die, be dead
• manatauta -- to think
• maŋo -- to breathe
• mau -- to fear
• mauri -- to live, be alive
• momoa -- to vomit
• okomia -- to suck
• rao -- to work
• roŋoa -- to hear
• rugano -- to hunt
• saea -- to say
• saugia -- to kill
• suana -- to see
• susulia -- to know, be knowledgeable
• taia -- to sew
• tio ano -- to lie down
• ū -- to stand
• ubu -- to swell
• ufia -- to blow
• ʔalea -- to bite
• ʔeli -- to dig

References

• Groenke, Ulrich. Die Sprachenlandschaft Skandinaviens. Germanistische Lehrbuchsammlung, Band 25.
• Krenn, Ernst. Föroyische Sprachlehre. Germanische Bibliothek. Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. Heidelberg, 1940. [PDF]