Kilivila
Facts
- Language: Kilivila
- Alternate names: Kiriwina
- Language code: kij
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Peripheral Papuan Tip linkage, Kilivila-Misima, Kilivilic, Kilivila-Muyuw
- Number of speakers: 20000
- Script:
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Introduction
Kilivila is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Milne Bay Province, Trobriand Islands.
Dialects
Kitava, Sinaketa, Vakuta. Lexical similarity: 68% with Muyuw (See: Muyuw).
The Kilivila Verb
Verblist
- la
- nukwali
- sisu
- bagula -- to work
- basi -- to sew
- debwali -- to fall
- geda -- to bite
- gigila -- to laugh
- gimwala -- to buy
- ginibabi -- to stab, pierce
- gisi -- to see
- giu -- to spit
- kakaya -- to swim
- kalawa -- to count
- kaliga -- to die, be dead
- kam -- to eat
- kata -- to burn
- kata|mati, katumati -- to kill
- katupwana, sikupweni -- to hide
- kaui -- to chew
- kayawasi -- to yawn
- kei|tubu -- to grow
- kenu -- to lie down
- keri -- to dig
- kila -- to choose
- kipatu -- to hold
- kipuneni -- to squeeze
- kokola -- to fear
- kwari -- to scratch
- lagi -- to hear
- lagoba -- to vomit
- lai, lova -- to throw
- livale -- to say
- lola -- to walk
- lova -- to shoot
- ma, wa -- to come
- masisi -- to sleep
- -mimi- -- to dream
- mku -- to pound, beat
- mom -- to drink
- mwamova -- to live, be alive
- mwena -- to climb
- nanamsa -- to think
- nukwali -- to know, be knowledgeable
- nunu -- to suck
- saqaula -- to flow
- sisu -- to sit
- sukwani -- to sniff, smell
- sulu -- to cook
- teya -- to cut, hack
- tota -- to stand
- tovila -- to turn
- ulela -- to swell
- ulemwa -- to open, uncover
- valam -- to cry
- vaula -- to plant
- velau -- to steal
- wavi -- to split
- wega -- to hunt
- weya -- to hit
- yagisa -- to breathe
- yowa -- to fly
- yuvi -- to blow
- yuwali -- to tie up, fasten