Hoava
Facts
- Language: Hoava
- Alternate names:
- Language code: hoa
- 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, New Georgia, East New Georgia, Rovianic, Hoava-Kusaghe
- Number of speakers: 460
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Hoava is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Western Province, New Georgia island, North Marovo lagoon.
Dialects
Similar to Kusaghe (See: Kusaghe).
The Hoava Verb
Verblist
- asa[so] -- to walk
- eko -- to lie down
- eme, omea -- to see
- ɣilalia -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ɣivu, tapuru -- to blow
- hiko -- to steal
- hukuaɣi, pita -- to hunt
- isara -- to laugh
- kambo -- to cry
- lua -- to vomit
- mae -- to come
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mbalambala -- to think
- mbelea, viɣala -- to split
- monoa -- to squeeze
- napo -- to drink
- ndakohia -- to tie up, fasten
- noso -- to spit
- nunu -- to suck
- ŋaniŋani -- to eat
- pato -- to say
- pitipiti -- to sew
- pota -- to hit
- poto -- to swell
- purukia -- to stab, pierce
- puta -- to sleep
- ruasa -- to swim
- saɣe|le -- to climb
- sara po -- to dig
- siŋo -- to breathe
- ta ɣuli -- to scratch
- ta ɣusi -- to bite
- ta homana -- to sniff, smell
- ta kuri -- to cut, hack
- tahiko -- to fear
- takina, toki -- to burn
- taŋini -- to hold
- tapuru -- to fly
- tase -- to count
- tavetavete -- to work
- taviɣiri -- to turn
- tiva -- to stand
- to -- to live, be alive
- totolo -- to flow
- tuŋu -- to sit
- uke -- to fall
- umania -- to hear
- vamate -- to kill