Mandara
Facts
- Language: Mandara
- Alternate names: Madara, Tabar
- Language code: tbf
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, Tabar linkage
- Number of speakers: 4000
- Script:
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Introduction
Mandara is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, Simberi, Tatau, Tabar, another island.
Dialects
Simberi, Tabar, Tatau.
The Mandara Verb
Verblist
- aratia, arati-a -- to bite
- ase -- to count
- dedeŋa, deŋaria -- to see
- dusi, turi -- to stand
- evua -- to dig
- gave -- to scratch
- jajaki-a -- to pound, beat
- jajaŋ -- to work
- jepa, jeparia -- to split
- jiji, puke -- to open, uncover
- jiki -- to sew
- jikosinenana -- to sniff, smell
- jura -- to plant
- kakasi -- to swim
- keda, kenda -- to kill
- kia, vakokoti -- to say
- kide -- to climb
- kinane -- to choose
- kinoju -- to spit
- kokovi -- to hide
- kora -- to fall
- magos, maŋgos, vandindir -- to sit
- mamana -- to hunt
- mase -- to breathe
- mate -- to die, be dead
- matovana -- to fear
- muaŋe, muaŋge -- to sleep
- muaŋge, pada -- to lie down
- muta muta, mutamuta -- to vomit
- ne|mai, nemai -- to come
- nopi -- to suck
- ŋaŋuvi -- to yawn
- ŋau -- to eat
- ŋiŋija, ŋiŋitsa -- to laugh
- paneko -- to shoot
- parabore, parambore -- to dream
- paro -- to hold
- polojan -- to squeeze
- pore -- to steal
- poro, to -- to live, be alive
- pup -- to flow
- rorojia -- to tie up, fasten
- roroŋ -- to hear
- rovo -- to fly
- talakirana, vadovadona -- to know, be knowledgeable
- taŋi -- to cry
- tara, tava -- to cut, hack
- tara, tava -- to stab, pierce
- ti -- to swell
- to -- to grow
- toka, ŋasa/na, ŋasana -- to chew
- tome -- to throw
- tunia, tuni-na -- to burn
- tuni-na -- to cook
- tutua -- to hit
- unu -- to drink
- uvi, uviuvi -- to blow
- vadovadona -- to think
- vasi -- to walk
- vori-a -- to buy
- vurisi, vuvurisi -- to turn