Matukar
Facts
- Language: Matukar
- Alternate names:
- Language code: mjk
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage, Bel-Roinji-Nenaya, Bel, Western Bel
- Number of speakers: 430
- Script: Category
More information:
Introduction
Matukar is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Madang Province, north of Madang town, Matukar area.
Dialects
Related to Gedaged (See: Gedaged).
The Matukar Verb
Verblist
- -ani -- to eat
- -bal -- to throw
- bubur -- to hunt
- buli hate -- to turn
- -en- -- to sleep
- es-meni- -- to breathe
- -gamuk, -tuli -- to say
- -gile -- to split
- -gite/ni, -nai, -sara -- to cook
- hunɨ -- to kill
- -ita-, -te -- to see
- kaiman -- to live, be alive
- karekare -- to scratch
- laula/n -- to spit
- leikiri -- to sew
- -log- -- to swim
- -lu- -- to vomit
- -lumi -- to drink
- -mado -- to sit
- -mat -- to die, be dead
- na-ni-ŋgo -- to burn
- -noŋ -- to hear
- nuk duhumi- -- to hit
- -ŋanoŋ- -- to sniff, smell
- -pan, -tut- -- to shoot
- -pipi -- to squeeze
- -rati -- to bite
- -re -- to blow
- -rer -- to fear
- sagai -- to dig
- -sel -- to laugh
- si sam -- to suck
- -soŋ -- to come
- -sue -- to stab, pierce
- suse -- to tie up, fasten
- -tam, -vani- -- to cry
- -tor, -y/a- -- to walk
- -tur -- to stand
- -tute -- to cut, hack
- urat -- to work
- -yabi -- to hold
- yayaŋani -- to count
References
- James Naughton. Colloquial Slovak. Routledge. New York, 1999.