Jawe
Facts
- Language: Jawe
- Alternate names: Diahoue, Njawe, Oubatch, Ubach
- Language code: jaz
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southern Melanesian, New Caledonian, Mainland New Caledonian, Northern New Caledonian, Mid-Northern New Caledonian
- Number of speakers: 990
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Jawe is a language of New Caledonia. It is spoken in East coast, Hienghène, from Tchamboenne to Tao; some inland villages on both sides of central divide.
The Jawe Verb
Verblist
- cevi
- hnami
- soot
- thoai
- thoap
- wân
- [ne]nemi -- to think
- cim -- to grow
- cuut -- to stand
- -dua -- to stab, pierce
- goni -- to sniff, smell
- guna, gunee -- to steal
- harat -- to fear
- haulai -- to hunt
- he-me -- to come
- higuk -- to swell
- hina -- to know, be knowledgeable
- hñamwi -- to choose
- hñana, po-hyeen -- to breathe
- huu -- to eat
- hwaŋi -- to tie up, fasten
- hwei -- to chew
- hwii -- to bite
- hya- -- to walk
- hyai -- to dig
- hye -- to cry
- hyoom -- to swim
- kaai -- to hit
- kaai -- to kill
- khêgo -- to lie down
- khêixa -- to sleep
- khûdi, khûduk -- to drink
- mac -- to die, be dead
- maric -- to live, be alive
- nep, neu-n -- to dream
- noja -- to see
- ŋaan -- to laugh
- oahem -- to yawn
- peei -- to say
- phinee -- to count
- soot -- to hold
- suma -- to spit
- ta -- to climb
- tago -- to sit
- tan -- to fly
- tavi -- to open, uncover
- tei -- to plant
- teiʔ -- to shoot
- tena -- to hear
- teo -- to cook
- texec -- to burn
- thai -- to throw
- thebanem -- to turn
- thebilee -- to squeeze
- thigic -- to sew
- thii na xoi -- to hide
- tho -- to flow
- tiluk -- to fall
- tit -- to suck
- to-gane -- to cut, hack
- ùi, thai -- to blow
- ûja -- to vomit
- uvi -- to buy
- yaxi -- to scratch