Mortlockese
Facts
- Language: Mortlockese
- Alternate names: Mortlock, Nomoi
- Language code: mrl
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian, Nuclear Micronesian, Central Micronesian, Western Micronesian, Chuukic-Ponapeic, Trukic, Nuclear Trukic, Central Trukic, Eastern Trukic, Mortlockese-Trukese
- Number of speakers: 5900
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
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Introduction
Mortlockese is a language of Micronesia. It is spoken in Mortlock Islands, southeast of Truk; Caroline Islands; Ponape island, lower Mortlock. Also in United States.
Dialects
Lower Mortlock, Mid Mortlock, Upper Mortlock. 75% intelligibility of Puluwatese (See: Puluwatese), 18% of Satawalese (See: Satawalese), 8% of Woleaian (See: Woleaian). Lexical similarity: 80%–85% with Chuukese (See: Chuukese), 83% with Puluwatese, 82% with Satawalese, 81% with Carolinian (See: Carolinian), 78% with Woleaian, 72% with Ulithian (See: Ulithian).
The Mortlockese Verb
Verblist
- (a)-kú, fi:kej -- to burn
- (kina)-mʷmʷe, maʉr, mawúr -- to sleep
- (ya)-mmoot, amw:o:ta, mʷoot -- to cook
- aikér, aikarɛ, akarakarej -- to scratch
- akiaki:, maŋimaŋɛ -- to think
- al:ɛanej, paa-ŋe -- to count
- amwaʃɞʉ -- to hold
- anʉf:a, mʷósho, púraf -- to steal
- aŋaŋ -- to work
- aŋɛ, aŋej, mwoŋo -- to eat
- ashe, atɨŋej -- to throw
- at:ɨf -- to spit
- fato-ki, fɔtokej, ffót -- to plant
- fétal, fatal -- to walk
- fɞ:tej -- to tie up, fasten
- fijej, fiye-(y) -- to squeeze
- fɨlli:, filɛ, fili -- to choose
- fit:o -- to come
- fóól, fóólo-nɛ, mæ:r -- to grow
- iaŋijaŋ, wike-(y) -- to blow
- iwel -- to lie down
- jæ: -- to swim
- k:aj, kkay -- to laugh
- k:ʉw, kúú-(w), kúúkú -- to bite
- kamɞ -- to buy
- kúle-e-(y), kɨlej -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kulula -- to turn
- lɨkap:ɨʃej -- to shoot
- ma:w, maw -- to yawn
- mæ -- to die, be dead
- manaw, ma-nawa-(n) -- to live, be alive
- me-sɛk, nuwɛtej -- to fear
- mɨtɨrej -- to suck
- móót, mwɔmw:ɔt -- to sit
- mʷmʷos, mw:os -- to vomit
- n:i:, nni -- to kill
- ŋasarej, ŋasaŋas -- to breathe
- ŋʉtej -- to chew
- o:pwola -- to hide
- osej -- to split
- pakku:w -- to cut, hack
- pʉŋʉtow -- to fall
- pʷoo, pwo -- to swell
- pwu -- to flow
- roŋ, roŋoroŋ -- to hear
- s:aŋ, sáŋ, sáŋisáŋ -- to cry
- sʉ -- to fly
- sukej -- to open, uncover
- t:an -- to dream
- tapwej -- to hunt
- te:j -- to sew
- téŋé-(w), təŋɞ:ʉ -- to sniff, smell
- tɞ:kej -- to climb
- towu -- to dig
- towu, ttowu -- to stab, pierce
- tuku-u-(w), uʃi: -- to hit
- ʉ: -- to stand
- ʉnʉmej -- to drink
- ʉrɔ -- to say
- úse, pʷpʷo, pwonej -- to pound, beat
- weri, wɞrej -- to see