Kwara’ae
Facts
- Language: Kwara’ae
- Alternate names: Fiu
- Language code: kwf
- 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: 32400
- Script:
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Introduction
Kwara’ae is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Central Malaita island.
The Kwara’ae Verb
Verblist
- abula -- to turn
- afe -- to flow
- ago -- to hide
- 'ala -- to bite
- angi -- to cry
- 'ani, fanga -- to eat
- 'aru -- to swim
- 'asi -- to fall
- bili -- to steal
- bulao -- to grow
- dami, damu -- to chew
- dau -- to hold
- do'ofi -- to burn
- do'ofi, du'uru -- to cook
- efo, fili -- to choose
- fali -- to walk
- fana -- to shoot
- fasi -- to plant
- fele -- to squeeze
- firi -- to tie up, fasten
- foli, usi -- to buy
- ga'a -- to laugh
- 'ifi -- to open, uncover
- 'ili -- to dig
- kakasi- -- to split
- kame -- to scratch
- kumu -- to stab, pierce
- kwa'i -- to hit
- kwa'u -- to drink
- lae -- to cut, hack
- leka ma'i -- to come
- lisi -- to see
- liu, ufi -- to blow
- lofo -- to fly
- loto -- to suck
- mae -- to die, be dead
- malinble, mo'osubole -- to dream
- maliu, mo'osu -- to sleep
- mamakwa -- to yawn
- manata -- to think
- mango -- to breathe
- ma'u -- to fear
- mauri -- to live, be alive
- moa -- to vomit
- moko -- to sniff, smell
- ngisu -- to spit
- ra'e -- to climb
- rao -- to work
- rongo -- to hear
- ru'u -- to hunt
- sae -- to say
- sai -- to know, be knowledgeable
- sau -- to pound, beat
- saungi -- to kill
- tai -- to sew
- tata'e, ū -- to stand
- teo -- to lie down
- to'omani -- to count
- tua -- to sit
- ubu -- to swell
- 'ui -- to throw