Gapapaiwa
Facts
- Language: Gapapaiwa
- Alternate names: Gapa, Manape, Paiwa
- Language code: pwg
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage, North Papuan Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux linkage, Are-Taupota linkage, Are linkage, Boanaki-Paiwa
- Number of speakers: 3000
- Script:
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Introduction
Gapapaiwa is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Milne Bay Province, Makamaka district, Cape Vogel south coast, inland on Ruaba river.
Dialects
East Gapa, West Paiwa. Lexical similarity: 73% with Ghayavi (See: Ghayavi?) (Boanaki dialect most similar).
The Gapapaiwa Verb
Verblist
- aninotanota -- to think
- bʰabʰa -- to walk
- bʰagibʰagi -- to work
- botoboto-i, vorovoro-i -- to squeeze
- dedara, tara -- to cut, hack
- gibugibu-i -- to cook
- giugiu-ra -- to scratch
- goroa -- to vomit
- gʷaru -- to swell
- ia-m ke-tawetawe -- to breathe
- iyiyava -- to count
- kanikani -- to bite
- kanikani -- to eat
- kanu -- to spit
- kapukapu-ni -- to burn
- ke-kena -- to lie down
- ke-kena -- to sleep
- ke-kita -- to see
- ke-kuni -- to tie up, fasten
- ke-makai -- to sit
- ke-omai -- to drink
- kepis -- to come
- ke-popoi -- to sew
- ke-ravi -- to hit
- ke-tona -- to shoot
- ke-tona -- to stab, pierce
- ke-vianei -- to hear
- kevikivirem -- to turn
- kevinama -- to laugh
- ke-visisia -- to say
- ke-vomʷiri -- to stand
- ke-yeka -- to swim
- kivunu -- to kill
- kovi -- to know, be knowledgeable
- peku -- to fall
- rabobo -- to die, be dead
- riɣa-i -- to split
- rovorovo -- to fly
- so-i -- to suck
- tawetawe-i -- to throw
- tou -- to cry
- uvena -- to blow
- vovotani -- to hold
- yabayaba-i -- to dig
- yabʰumana -- to fear
- yawayawa-na -- to live, be alive
- yebaɣa -- to hunt
- yoni -- to sniff, smell