Kaulong
Facts
- Language: Kaulong
- Alternate names: Kowlong, Pasismanua
- Language code: pss
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage, Southwest New Britain linkage, Arawe-Pasismanua, Pasismanua
- Number of speakers: 4000
- Script:
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Introduction
Kaulong is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in West New Britain Province, Kandrian district, southwest.
Dialects
East Inland Kaulong, Kaulong. Miu (See: Miu?), Aighon (See: Aighon?), and Senseng (See: Sengseng) may be dialects (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
The Kaulong Verb
Verblist
- ḇi -- to kill
- ɛmiyu -- to breathe
- hau -- to cry
- hip -- to hunt
- hul -- to hear
- hun -- to die, be dead
- hwa -- to plant
- i -- to burn
- i -- to eat
- in -- to live, be alive
- ion, kon -- to see
- iyan, koh, tuk -- to bite
- kaip -- to chew
- kalɛk -- to scratch
- kamo -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kil -- to dig
- kimos, kuhwah -- to spit
- kis -- to hide
- klaf -- to stab, pierce
- kul -- to buy
- kum -- to work
- lap -- to open, uncover
- les -- to laugh
- lɛm -- to fear
- mɛ, mu -- to come
- miyuŋ -- to blow
- mlor̃e -- to suck
- mur̃|wuk -- to vomit
- mut -- to walk
- nahauŋ -- to sleep
- nuk -- to lie down
- paiʔh -- to turn
- pal -- to split
- paŋ -- to squeeze
- pɛk -- to sniff, smell
- pit -- to stand
- plok -- to grow
- ploŋ -- to fall
- puh -- to tie up, fasten
- sakal, wo -- to say
- si put -- to climb
- sik -- to throw
- som -- to swell
- sop -- to hit
- su -- to swim
- sum -- to hold
- sut -- to flow
- sut, wut -- to cook
- tai -- to cut, hack
- tak -- to yawn
- tara -- to sew
- tik -- to count
- tulu -- to think
- tut -- to pound, beat
- um -- to drink
- uŋ -- to sit
- yap -- to fly
- yɛm -- to steal
- yol -- to dream