Lenakel
Facts
- Language: Lenakel
- Alternate names:
- Language code: tnl
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southern Melanesian, Southern Vanuatu, Tanna, Northern Tanna linkage
- Number of speakers: 11500
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Lenakel is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in West central Tanna.
Dialects
Ikyoo, Itonga, Loanatit, Nerauya. Complex dialect chain; up to 10 dialects (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
The Lenakel Verb
Verblist
- aamh -- to see
- aih -- to flow
- aik -- to swim
- ail -- to stand
- aki -- to scratch
- aklha -- to steal
- aləlín -- to turn
- aliuok -- to walk
- amai -- to chew
- amel -- to lie down
- amel-ait -- to dream
- amiŋ -- to breathe
- amiuh -- to live, be alive
- amnuumw -- to drink
- aŋh -- to spit
- apul -- to sleep
- arai -- to cut, hack
- arou -- to hear
- arou -- to sniff, smell
- arpiai -- to split
- asak -- to cry
- asiis -- to swell
- asumw -- to work
- atia -- to pound, beat
- atita -- to open, uncover
- atkín -- to throw
- avət -- to squeeze
- avhín -- to count
- əlhieelh -- to laugh
- elhuaiŋ -- to hide
- əliis -- to tie up, fasten
- əm -- to fall
- əni -- to say
- əŋn -- to fear
- əru -- to shoot
- ət -- to climb
- ətik -- to stab, pierce
- eua -- to vomit
- eukpən -- to hunt
- hal, ilíl -- to blow
- haukər -- to choose
- hinatín -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ho -- to hit
- hoapwnín -- to kill
- il -- to dig
- ipwər -- to grow
- ivək -- to fly
- kən -- to eat
- kəs -- to bite
- məs -- to die, be dead
- nəki-n r-ho -- to think
- os nəmr-n -- to buy
- os -- to hold
- ouaŋ-taat -- to yawn
- owta -- to sit
- su -- to plant
- təm -- to suck
- til -- to sew
- va -- to come
- vaan -- to burn
- viin -- to cook