Goodenough, West
Facts
- Language: Goodenough, West
- Alternate names: Diodio
- Language code: ddi
- 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, Bwaidoga linkage
- Number of speakers: 2180
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Goodenough, West is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Milne Bay Province, Goodenough island west coast.
Dialects
Awale, Central Diodio, Giwau, Iauiaula, Miyalabi, Molata, Utalo. Lexical similarity: 66% with Bwaidoka (See: Bwaidoka) (most similar).
The Goodenough, West Verb
Verblist
- a'au -- to eat
- abi -- to hold
- abuyoya -- to squeeze
- aitalaya -- to cut, hack
- aiyala -- to dig
- aiyavya -- to open, uncover
- aiyonaonaya -- to sew
- aiyonaya -- to stab, pierce
- aiyova ya -- to bite
- alamana -- to know, be knowledgeable
- anika -- to die, be dead
- avaita -- to dream
- awamoyova -- to yawn
- bolimana imadumaduya -- to blow
- dauva -- to sleep
- faisewa -- to work
- ita -- to see
- ivetoya -- to sit
- iyenaenai -- to come
- kau -- to chew
- kivila -- to turn
- lauyalala -- to split
- lutafi -- to hit
- matauta -- to fear
- mayana -- to sniff, smell
- midimididi -- to stand
- munuya -- to kill
- mwadayini -- to scratch
- naudadana -- to walk
- noyala -- to hear
- ovala -- to vomit
- sawa -- to count
- seya -- to throw
- susu -- to suck
- tabo -- to grow
- tayia -- to cry
- towa -- to swim
- tubuya -- to swell
- tui -- to burn
- velaiya -- to laugh
- vetaova -- to cook
- veyaluyeta -- to hunt
- wonawona -- to say
- yaveya -- to fly
- yawai -- to breathe
- yawayawana -- to live, be alive
- yoyo -- to tie up, fasten
- yuya -- to drink