Lavukaleve
Facts
- Language: Lavukaleve
- Alternate names: Laube, Laumbe, Russell Island
- Language code: lvk
- Language family: Central Solomons (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: 1780
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Lavukaleve is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Central Solomons, Russell Islands northwest of Guadalcanal.
The Lavukaleve Verb
Verblist
- ae
- ao
- hoi
- ahoma -- to bite
- aiva, fɔava, keleai, velama -- to walk
- aki, ɔhɔe, uia -- to stab, pierce
- akuru -- to kill
- akuru, kurun -- to hit
- alea, alem -- to see
- erou -- to fall
- eu, eui -- to drink
- eu, eui, oune -- to eat
- fale -- to stand
- fifi -- to sit
- fofoira -- to work
- fofor, sɔu -- to fly
- fufu -- to lie down
- fufuari -- to blow
- hatari, kinɔ, okoroi -- to cut, hack
- hiva -- to say
- hoe, kelaɣo -- to burn
- honiam -- to know, be knowledgeable
- iŋi -- to scratch
- irui -- to sleep
- kiu -- to die, be dead
- lae -- to cry
- laketei -- to live, be alive
- lalu -- to steal
- mumut -- to vomit
- naɣeam -- to fear
- ofi, vɔfimɛm -- to hear
- ofoi -- to hold
- ohoa -- to sew
- okini -- to sniff, smell
- oluɣu -- to think
- orui -- to suck
- osu -- to tie up, fasten
- otori -- to split
- ovaori -- to squeeze
- ovu -- to dig
- sē -- to swell
- seuekʔ -- to hunt
- soŋi, sū -- to swim
- sosokoe -- to laugh
- suɣaev -- to spit
- tuturu -- to flow
- valiriai -- to turn
- vomiari -- to count
- vuivofoi -- to breathe
- vulama -- to come