Lavatbura-Lamusong
Facts
- Language: Lavatbura-Lamusong
- Alternate names: Lamasong
- Language code: lbv
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, Madak linkage
- Number of speakers: 1310
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Lavatbura-Lamusong is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, central.
Dialects
Kontu, Lamusong (Lamasong), Lavatbura, Ugana.
The Lavatbura-Lamusong Verb
Verblist
- an, anən -- to eat
- arʊs -- to burn
- atik -- to know, be knowledgeable
- gaga -- to scratch
- gonom -- to bite
- goyo -- to fall
- gʊt -- to dig
- imbis -- to spit
- in -- to drink
- ɪŋ -- to climb
- isigim -- to steal
- kagɪs -- to swim
- kis -- to sit
- mamas -- to breathe
- maraat -- to fear
- məman -- to yawn
- məre -- to die, be dead
- mura -- to vomit
- ndogondogoma -- to think
- noŋon -- to laugh
- ŋgu -- to work
- pava -- to fly
- pəs -- to walk
- rəŋə, təŋə -- to hold
- rɪn, tɪn -- to cook
- rogop -- to suck
- roŋo -- to hear
- roro -- to live, be alive
- sapuk -- to turn
- səp -- to kill
- sia -- to plant
- sɪk -- to sew
- silin -- to hunt
- sima -- to sniff, smell
- so -- to stab, pierce
- soŋgo, tɪt -- to hit
- sʊk -- to swell
- tɪŋ -- to cry
- tu -- to stand
- tuyu -- to shoot
- tuyu -- to throw
- undeu -- to come
- uŋa -- to sleep
- us -- to count
- vara -- to say
- vəŋgəm -- to split
- vəvəŋ -- to open, uncover
- vilok -- to squeeze
- vit -- to cut, hack
- vogos -- to tie up, fasten
- vondo -- to see
- vu -- to blow