Gula’alaa
Facts
- Language: Gula’alaa
- Alternate names: Kwai, Ngongosila
- Language code: gmb
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira, Malaita-Makira, Malaita, Central-Northern Malaita
- Number of speakers: 1570
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Gula’alaa is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in East side of Kwara’ae, Kwai and Ngongosila islands, Malaita.
Dialects
May be intelligible of Lau (See: Lau) or Kwara’ae (See: Kwara’ae?). Lexical similarity: 85% with Lau (See: Lau) and Kwara’ae (See: Kwara’ae?).
The Gula’alaa Verb
Verblist
- abulo -- to turn
- ada -- to see
- afe -- to flow
- agofia -- to burn
- aŋi -- to cry
- araŋa, siu -- to swim
- belia -- to steal
- dau -- to hold
- esia -- to fall
- fali, leka, leka toli, lekailaŋi -- to walk
- fana -- to eat
- firia -- to tie up, fasten
- fusia -- to say
- gamea -- to scratch
- gou -- to drink
- gouru -- to sit
- karia -- to split
- kwaia -- to kill
- labua -- to stab, pierce
- leka mai -- to come
- lofo, sisimi -- to fly
- losia -- to squeeze
- loto -- to suck
- mae -- to die, be dead
- maleo -- to sleep
- manata -- to think
- mano, mouri -- to live, be alive
- maŋo -- to breathe
- mɔkɔ -- to sniff, smell
- momoa -- to vomit
- mou -- to fear
- nanisia -- to hunt
- niaʔa, tofua -- to cut, hack
- nomulia -- to sew
- ŋisū -- to spit
- rabusia -- to hit
- rao -- to work
- roŋo -- to hear
- suana -- to know, be knowledgeable
- take -- to stand
- teo -- to lie down
- tomai -- to count
- ubu -- to swell
- ufū -- to blow
- waela -- to laugh
- ʔalea -- to bite
- ʔelia -- to dig