Futuna, East
Facts
- Language: Futuna, East
- Alternate names: East Futunan, Futunian
- Language code: fud
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 3600
- Script:
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Introduction
Futuna, East is a language of Wallis and Futuna. It is spoken in Futuna island. Also in New Caledonia.
Dialects
Not intelligible of Wallisian (See: Wallisian) (East Uvean). Closely related to other Western Polynesian languages (Fagauvea (See: Fagauvea), Wallisian (See: Wallisian), Tongan (See: Tongan), Samoan (See: Samoan), Tokelau (See: Tokelauan), and Niuafo’ou (See: Niuafo’ou?)).
The Futuna, East Verb
Verblist
- muke
- sā
- àànu, kisu -- to spit
- agi, pu/pusi/, taili -- to blow
- aku, vaku -- to scratch
- ano, sa'ele -- to walk
- àtu/fi, pèesi, tii -- to throw
- àu -- to come
- fakapaisi -- to split
- fakatau, totogi -- to buy
- fana, feua -- to hunt
- fili -- to choose
- fu/fula/ -- to swell
- fuli, tafuli -- to turn
- gaa'oi -- to work
- ga'ega'esā, ga/àki/, maanava -- to breathe
- gau -- to chew
- ìi, mataku -- to fear
- ìlo/a, maatino, masani, poto -- to know, be knowledgeable
- inu -- to drink
- isi, kamu, koti, sele, talai, tu'uti, vasi -- to cut, hack
- ka/kau/, kakau -- to swim
- kai, omaki -- to eat
- kaiàa, kaiaà -- to steal
- kake -- to climb
- kalolo -- to shoot
- kata -- to laugh
- kenu -- to dig
- kite, ma/mata, matamata, tio -- to see
- koko/ì, kukumi, lo/lomi/ -- to squeeze
- komo, mi/miti/, miti/miti, momi, umi/a -- to suck
- kuku, sapo -- to hold
- lau -- to count
- lele -- to fly
- liilii, noa/'ua, noa/kie -- to tie up, fasten
- logo -- to hear
- lu/lua/, lua/ki -- to vomit
- maavava -- to yawn
- malele, siga, too -- to fall
- manatu, masalo -- to think
- mate -- to die, be dead
- ma'uli -- to live, be alive
- moe -- to lie down
- moe -- to sleep
- moe/miti/, moemiti -- to dream
- mu(muni) -- to hide
- nofo -- to sit
- paatuu, paki/a, sasa, taa -- to hit
- pati -- to say
- saka, ta'o -- to cook
- sali, tafe -- to flow
- sogi -- to sniff, smell
- soka -- to pound, beat
- sokaì, suki -- to stab, pierce
- somo -- to grow
- sufegi -- to open, uncover
- susunu, tutu -- to burn
- tagi -- to cry
- tamate -- to kill
- too -- to plant
- tui -- to sew
- tu'u -- to stand
- 'u/'uti, 'uu, kati/kati -- to bite