Marquesan, North
Facts
- Language: Marquesan, North
- Alternate names: ’Eo ’Enana
- Language code: mrq
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, Central Eastern Polynesian, Marquesan
- Number of speakers: 5390
- Script:
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Introduction
Marquesan, North is a language of French Polynesia. It is spoken in Marquesas Islands: Nuku Hiva, Ua Huka, Ua Pou islands. Also in United States.
Dialects
Hatutu, Nuku Hiva, Ua Huka, Ua Pou. Wurm and Hattori (1981) list North Marquesan and South Marquesan (See: Marquesan, South?) as 2 languages. North Marquesan dialects all inherently intelligible. 50% intelligibility of Tahitian (See: Tahitian). Lexical similarity: 45%–67% with Tahitian (See: Tahitian), 73% with Mangareva (See: Mangareva) and Rarotonga (See: Rarotongan), 70% with Hawaiian (See: Hawaiian), 29% with Tuamotuan (See: Tuamotuan).
The Marquesan, North Verb
Verblist
- 'ai, kai, kaikai -- to eat
- àta, kata -- to laugh
- fitiì, hitiki, nani, nati -- to tie up, fasten
- ha, menava, puhi i te menava -- to breathe
- haámate, kukumi, pehi -- to kill
- ha'ameta'u -- to fear
- hakanaa, pu/puni/ -- to hide
- hakau'a, tutu -- to burn
- hana -- to work
- he'e mai, he'e mai, tihe -- to come
- hèe, taha -- to walk
- hete, huhu'a -- to swell
- hiamoe -- to sleep
- hika (m'n), hina, huu te henua, maku'u, mekèe, moku'u, topa, vi'i -- to fall
- hiti -- to climb
- hoki, hone, kaka'a -- to sniff, smell
- ho'o, hoko -- to buy
- huki, paaoka -- to stab, pierce
- 'ihi, 'o'oti, kokoti, taài -- to cut, hack
- ííma, mau, to'o -- to hold
- inu -- to drink
- 'ite, hani -- to know, be knowledgeable
- íte, ti'ohi -- to see
- kai hue, kamo -- to steal
- kakahu, nahu, nennahhu -- to bite
- kakahu, nennahhu -- to chew
- kau -- to swim
- kavi'i, kavií -- to turn
- ke'i, keì (i) -- to dig
- kèo, mate -- to die, be dead
- kere, paì/paì, paki/paki, patu, pehi, ta, tuì, tuki, tutuki -- to hit
- koava, vahi -- to split
- ma'akau, maákau -- to think
- maa'oo, tuu -- to stand
- mama -- to yawn
- moe -- to lie down
- moemoea -- to dream
- nanu -- to plant
- noho -- to sit
- nunu, tao -- to cook
- 'oko, 'ono -- to hear
- 'omi, hota, koko, naku -- to squeeze
- 'omo -- to suck
- ona -- to fly
- pe'au, peáu, teáo, tekao -- to say
- pe'ua, pepeu -- to open, uncover
- pohu'e, pohué -- to live, be alive
- puhi, pupuhi -- to blow
- puhi, toi -- to shoot
- ta/tau/, tatau -- to count
- tahe -- to flow
- taki, tani, ue -- to cry
- tatai, tute -- to hunt
- tauke, tiì, tio'a -- to throw
- tufa, tuha -- to spit
- tui -- to sew
- tuì, tuki -- to pound, beat
- tupu -- to grow
- tuve'e, tuveé -- to scratch
- 'ua -- to vomit
- vae -- to choose