Mentawai
Facts
- Language: Mentawai
- Alternate names: Mentawei, Mentawi
- Language code: mwv
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands, Nuclear Barrier Islands, Mentawai-Nias-Sikule
- Number of speakers: 58000
- Script:
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Introduction
Mentawai is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in West Sumatra Province. Mentawai islands, across from Padang city.
Dialects
North Siberut, Pagai, Sakalagan, Saumanganja, Silabu, Simalegi, Sipura, South Siberut, Taikaku.
The Mentawai Verb
Verblist
- agai -- to know, be knowledgeable
- aiyat, moi -- to come
- belek -- to fall
- icok -- to see
- mabukklo -- to swell
- masiurep -- to plant
- matei -- to die, be dead
- matei -- to kill
- mukom -- to eat
- mulook -- to drink
- murimanua -- to live, be alive
- musou -- to cry
- mu'uddet -- to sit
- nyonyonyok -- to stab, pierce
- perep -- to sleep
- sakai -- to climb
- saki -- to buy
- silak -- to split
- tubu -- to stand
- tuburut -- to fly