Mokilese
Facts
- Language: Mokilese
- Alternate names: Mokil, Mwoakilese, Mwoakiloa
- Language code: mkj
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian, Nuclear Micronesian, Central Micronesian, Western Micronesian, Chuukic-Ponapeic, Ponapeic
- Number of speakers: 1050
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Mokilese is a language of Micronesia. It is spoken in Mokil (Mwoakiloa) atoll, east of Carolines; Pohnpei island. Also in United States.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 79% with Pingelapese (See: Pingelapese), 75% with Pohnapeian (See: Pohnpeian).
The Mokilese Verb
Verblist
- (je)-ejɔ -- to know, be knowledgeable
- andip -- to spit
- dɔ, dɔdɔ -- to sew
- dɔkɔ, dok -- to stab, pierce
- diidi -- to suck
- dow -- to climb
- iro-ŋ -- to see
- jaŋi-d, jɔŋ -- to cry
- juk, juki -- to pound, beat
- kari-(pʷɔd), kari-(pʷɔdɔ) -- to scratch
- kasɔ, kaskas -- to throw
- kɔ, kɛykɛy -- to bite
- maama -- to yawn
- mɔyr -- to sleep
- mɛɛ- -- to die, be dead
- mi-jik -- to fear
- mowr -- to live, be alive
- mʷin-(di) -- to sit
- mʷiŋe -- to eat
- ni-m -- to drink
- ŋi-d, ŋidŋid -- to chew
- ŋij -- to laugh
- pɔdok -- to plant
- pil, pilpil -- to choose
- pʷa, pwee-ŋ -- to say
- pʷal, pʷala-ŋ -- to split
- roŋ -- to hear
- u, uu-(da) -- to stand
- uk -- to blow
- wade-k -- to count