Kokota
Facts
- Language: Kokota
- Alternate names:
- Language code: kkk
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, Santa Isabel, Central Santa Isabel
- Number of speakers: 530
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Kokota is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Santa Isabel, northeast coast, Sisiga and Ghoveo villages; southwest coast, Hurepelo.
The Kokota Verb
Verblist
- kumai
- aḷa -- to split
- biṛo -- to lie down
- biṛo -- to sleep
- doli, ndɔli -- to live, be alive
- dupai -- to hit
- fakani -- to see
- falehe -- to kill
- fikai -- to turn
- friŋ̣e -- to work
- fro -- to squeeze
- ɣaɣato -- to think
- ɣaro -- to scratch
- ifu -- to blow
- katini -- to bite
- kini -- to hold
- kmisu -- to spit
- koblo -- to laugh
- kumai -- to drink
- lalase -- to know, be knowledgeable
- lehe -- to die, be dead
- lulua -- to vomit
- mai -- to come
- ṃano-na -- to fear
- mbusa -- to stab, pierce
- ṃoko -- to sit
- nabrita -- to flow
- nanafa -- to breathe
- nonohmo -- to hear
- nubra -- to burn
- ṇuge -- to swell
- ŋhau -- to eat
- oeni -- to say
- pirini -- to tie up, fasten
- puka -- to fly
- ṛue -- to cry
- siri -- to sniff, smell
- sisiko -- to steal
- subro -- to suck
- susuki -- to sew
- tao -- to swim
- tataho -- to count
- tavihi -- to hunt
- tetu -- to stand
- toka -- to cut, hack
- uka -- to fall
- zazaho -- to walk
- zoha -- to dig