Kwaio
Facts
- Language: Kwaio
- Alternate names: Koio
- Language code: kwd
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira, Malaita-Makira, Malaita, Central-Northern Malaita
- Number of speakers: 13200
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Kwaio is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Central Malaita island.
Dialects
More similar to Kwara’ae (See: Kwara’ae?) than to ’Are’are (See: ’Are’are?).
The Kwaio Verb
Verblist
- afe -- to flow
- agasi-a -- to see
- akʷai -- to yawn
- ani -- to cry
- anomi-a -- to plant
- aʔe-a -- to open, uncover
- balaʔau -- to swim
- bilaʔo -- to grow
- bole-a -- to dream
- boʔo, ubu -- to swell
- bulasi-a -- to turn
- dau -- to hold
- eno -- to lie down
- eno -- to sleep
- fai-a -- to scratch
- fana -- to hunt
- fane -- to climb
- filo-a -- to squeeze
- foli-a -- to buy
- fulu -- to blow
- gaafitalia -- to split
- gaua -- to tie up, fasten
- gofu-a -- to burn
- goʔufiʔa -- to drink
- gumuli-a -- to pound, beat
- idumi-a -- to count
- ili-a -- to say
- kʷaʔi-a -- to hit
- kʷaʔi-a -- to kill
- leeleka -- to walk
- leka mai -- to come
- lofo -- to fly
- lole-a, togi-a -- to steal
- loŋa-a -- to hear
- madafi-a -- to think
- mae -- to die, be dead
- maŋo -- to breathe
- maʔu -- to fear
- meʔe, meme-a -- to chew
- moa -- to vomit
- modoa -- to suck
- mokofi-a -- to sniff, smell
- nagʷa -- to hide
- nulafi-a -- to cook
- ŋisu -- to spit
- oso -- to eat
- suʔai -- to know, be knowledgeable
- tai-a -- to sew
- takʷe-a -- to dig
- tauŋaʔiŋa -- to work
- tofu-a -- to cut, hack
- toʔolu -- to live, be alive
- toʔolu -- to sit
- ula -- to stand
- ʔala[si-a] -- to bite
- ʔesia -- to fall
- ʔosa -- to laugh
- ʔotomi-a -- to stab, pierce
- ʔui-a -- to throw