Irarutu
Facts
- Language: Irarutu
- Alternate names: Arguni Bay, Irahutu, Irutu, Kaitero, Kasira
- Language code: irh
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Greater SHWNG, Nabi-Irarutu
- Number of speakers: 4000
- Script:
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Introduction
Irarutu is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in West Papua Province, 44 villages. East Bomberai peninsula; Arguni bay north to Bintuni bay, southwest.
Dialects
6 or 7 dialects. Lexical similarity: 90% with Kuri (See: Kuri?).
The Irarutu Verb
Verblist
- -ba|nogre- -- to hear
- -bəna-ve -- to steal
- -beni, -mə|tefe -- to spit
- -berrife -- to laugh
- -bəsəbuse -- to suck
- -biere -- to say
- -bi-rə -- to choose
- -bunə -- to kill
- -efə -- to count
- -fanə -- to walk
- -ga -- to eat
- gin gerevivare- -- to lie down
- -gin[e] -- to drink
- -gi-ne -- to sleep
- ginə-mesi -- to dream
- -kaka -- to swim
- -ma -- to come
- -ma|totə -- to cut, hack
- -matə -- to die, be dead
- matorə -- to sit
- -matune -- to cook
- mə|garə -- to dig
- -mə|gor -- to bite
- -mə|gu-rə -- to buy
- -mə|ragete -- to split
- mə|remte -- to tie up, fasten
- mə|rire -- to stand
- mə|rue -- to vomit
- -me|sagwe -- to breathe
- mə|səbegete -- to shoot
- mə|səga-fone -- to open, uncover
- -me|səgəfo -- to sniff, smell
- -me|tage -- to cry
- -mə|ta-nə -- to plant
- mə|tarə -- to stab, pierce
- mə|tətanfe -- to hunt
- -mə|ti, -mə|tru -- to throw
- -mə|titi -- to fall
- -mə|tu-tə -- to pound, beat
- -mesegigere, -murə -- to scratch
- -məsi -- to see
- metebe -- to hit
- mietə -- to climb
- -mta-t|e -- to fear
- -muda -- to hold
- -mudəve -- to work
- -mutə -- to sew
- -muvrə -- to squeeze
- -nəbər|barə -- to swell
- -nevovo -- to flow
- nufə -- to blow
- -rarune -- to know, be knowledgeable
- -rega -- to live, be alive
- -su-re -- to fly
- -vederbono -- to think