Hakö
Facts
- Language: Hakö
- Alternate names: Haku
- Language code: hao
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, North Bougainville Oceanic, Nuclear North Bougainville Oceanic, Buka, Haliaic
- Number of speakers: 5000
- Script:
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Introduction
Hakö is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, North Bougainville district, northeast Buka island.
Dialects
Lontes.
The Hakö Verb
Verblist
- a kio ra ku, e huhuna, ha-gololo -- to cook
- a-pum a to toa -- to live, be alive
- e ati -- to know, be knowledgeable
- e- esena -- to count
- e- golona -- to laugh
- e kamu -- to bite
- e- kutina -- to work
- e- lŏana -- to vomit
- e longolona -- to hear
- e- longoton̄a, longoto -- to tie up, fasten
- e- matutuna -- to fear
- e nanina -- to eat
- e ngalana -- to cry
- e- pukuna -- to swell
- e ranga -- to say
- e sohona, e-sohona -- to sleep
- e- sokana -- to sniff, smell
- e- takirahan, golo -- to scratch
- e tapa -- to fly
- e tapa-ha -- to sit
- e tarana -- to see
- e- to pona -- to suck
- e tsitsingocha -- to stand
- e wana -- to drink
- elala -- to walk
- elebena -- to grow
- e-nopuna -- to lie down
- hana-hana -- to shoot
- he a tung -- to hit
- heŏ -- to hunt
- hi puli -- to stab, pierce
- hola-habiritsina -- to turn
- hosa -- to breathe
- kinahus -- to spit
- kola -- to chew
- kop -- to steal
- kulupu, ngotona -- to burn
- lanama -- to come
- le ba -- to plant
- lebaleba -- to dig
- mamahana -- to yawn
- mehe -- to dream
- mete -- to die, be dead
- nepe -- to swim
- pilena -- to hold
- pots -- to squeeze
- pupuna -- to cut, hack
- titi palao -- to throw
- tu ka ta -- to split
- tul -- to sew
- yatung -- to kill