Longgu
Facts
- Language: Longgu
- Alternate names: Logu
- Language code: lgu
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira
- Number of speakers: 1890
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Longgu is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Guadalcanal east coast.
Dialects
Brought over long ago by settlers from Malaita; probably not intelligible with other Malaita languages.
The Longgu Verb
Verblist
- aðeaðe -- to breathe
- alea -- to bite
- aŋi -- to cry
- asia, ivui -- to dig
- ðaia, pukua -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ðuala -- to stand
- ðundu -- to sit
- eno -- to lie down
- erea -- to burn
- ɣusia, losia -- to squeeze
- hanā -- to think
- ilia -- to say
- indu -- to count
- inu -- to drink
- kakavoka -- to split
- lae, laelae, sivo, tae laʔi, vane -- to walk
- lamai -- to come
- laŋɔ, lovo -- to fly
- loto, tatapo -- to swim
- mae -- to die, be dead
- mauri -- to live, be alive
- mauru -- to sleep
- maʔu -- to fear
- mbeli -- to steal
- mbere -- to see
- moamoa -- to vomit
- mwasi -- to laugh
- ndio -- to fall
- nonoʔia -- to suck
- ŋgarusia -- to scratch
- ŋisu -- to spit
- oloʔia, toka, vala -- to cut, hack
- popote -- to swell
- ramisia -- to hit
- ririu -- to turn
- roŋonia -- to hear
- ruʔu -- to hunt
- sivolia -- to blow
- siʔini -- to sniff, smell
- taia -- to sew
- toŋoa -- to tie up, fasten
- toʔi -- to work
- toʔia, toria -- to hold
- vaŋa -- to eat
- waʔia -- to kill
- ʔaraʔara -- to flow