Likum
Facts
- Language: Likum
- Alternate names:
- Language code: lib
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Admiralty Islands, Eastern Admiralty Islands, Manus, West Manus, West Manus II
- Number of speakers: 80
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Likum is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Manus Province, west Manus island.
The Likum Verb
Verblist
- cacom -- to count
- cilen -- to cry
- e-jay -- to swim
- ejih -- to fly
- e-joh -- to cook
- ekkeh -- to steal
- ekkek -- to squeeze
- ellah -- to swell
- elloh -- to fall
- e-maʔak -- to scratch
- e-metin -- to sleep
- emmay -- to hide
- emmih -- to dream
- e-mok -- to vomit
- e-motoh -- to cut, hack
- enuhun -- to sniff, smell
- e-puton -- to think
- e-rohon -- to hear
- e-saʔan -- to see
- e-sirih -- to sew
- eso koha-n -- to breathe
- esun -- to burn
- e-taʔak -- to bite
- e-taʔak -- to chew
- e-torow -- to hold
- ettah -- to plant
- ettoh -- to grow
- e-yohow -- to hunt
- i-aʔan -- to eat
- ih -- to dig
- i-mak -- to die, be dead
- i-ñek -- to climb
- i-noh -- to fear
- i-rom -- to shoot
- i-rom -- to stab, pierce
- i-uʔun -- to drink
- kerekih -- to laugh
- kurusom -- to spit
- lohow -- to work
- mañah -- to sit
- maw -- to say
- o|mʷe -- to come
- ootet -- to walk
- posoa -- to turn
- sapara -- to throw
- sapow -- to split
- sewie -- to buy
- somuna -- to blow
- tatok -- to stand
- toniʔan -- to know, be knowledgeable
- uhu -- to tie up, fasten
- yeʔum -- to hit
- yiʔin -- to lie down