Kelabit
Facts
- Language: Kelabit
- Alternate names: Kalabit, Kerabit
- Language code: kzi
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, North Borneo Malayo-Polynesian, North Sarawakan, Dayic, Kelabitic
- Number of speakers: 4000
- Script:
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Introduction
Kelabit is a language of Malaysia. It is spoken in North Sarawak, highest and most remote Borneo mountains, Bario highlands. Also in Indonesia.
Dialects
Brung, Lepu Potong, Libbung, Long Lellang, Long Peluan, Pa’ Dalih, Pa’ Umor (spoken in Bario), Tabun.
The Kelabit Verb
Verblist
- tunuh
- [mulun] -- to grow
- baraʔ -- to swell
- belih -- to buy
- bilaʔ, nepak -- to split
- keliʔ, ŋeliʔo -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kuman -- to eat
- latiʔ -- to work
- l-em-aŋuy -- to swim
- madil -- to shoot
- mala -- to say
- m-anud -- to flow
- marih -- to come
- maté -- to die, be dead
- me-deket -- to sew
- menad, t-em-uked, umak -- to climb
- meno -- to steal
- mepaʔ -- to chew
- merek -- to squeeze
- miliʔ -- to choose
- m-irup -- to drink
- m-itiʔ, nuʔut -- to suck
- m-uab, ŋ-uab -- to yawn
- mudur -- to stand
- muen -- to sniff, smell
- m-ulun -- to live, be alive
- mupih -- to dream
- mupuʔ -- to hit
- nalan -- to walk
- nanek -- to cook
- naŋé -- to cry
- nebʰek -- to stab, pierce
- nelaʔ, nutuk -- to throw
- niat -- to breathe
- nibu -- to plant
- niŋer -- to hear
- niʔer -- to see
- nukat -- to dig
- nunuh, nutud -- to burn
- nutuk -- to pound, beat
- ŋ-abet -- to tie up, fasten
- ŋaro -- to scratch
- ŋaté -- to kill
- ŋe-lidʰaʔ -- to spit
- ŋe-linuh -- to think
- ŋe-raad -- to hunt
- ŋeteb -- to cut, hack
- ŋetep, ŋ-ubit -- to bite
- ŋ-imet -- to hold
- ŋ-inam -- to count
- ŋ-iup -- to blow
- ŋ-ukab -- to open, uncover
- ŋ-utaʔ -- to vomit
- periŋapuŋ -- to hide
- r-em-ier -- to turn
- riruh -- to laugh
- rudap -- to sleep
- selubid -- to lie down
- taʔut -- to fear
- t-em-ulud -- to fly
- tudo -- to sit
- tutuʔ -- to fall