Mota
Facts
- Language: Mota
- Alternate names:
- Language code: mtt
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northern Vanuatu, Torres-Banks linkage
- Number of speakers: 900
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Mota is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Banks Group, Mota (Sugarloaf) island.
The Mota Verb
Verblist
- [gara]wora -- to split
- anus -- to spit
- as, sar -- to stab, pierce
- es -- to live, be alive
- gagao, garu -- to swim
- gagata, karu -- to scratch
- gan[a] -- to eat
- ganagana -- to hunt
- gat -- to chew
- gavir, totos -- to squeeze
- gawa, rowo -- to fly
- gil, nur -- to dig
- gilala -- to know, be knowledgeable
- girei, wol -- to buy
- gogolo -- to fear
- ilo -- to see
- ilo-raka -- to choose
- ima, un -- to drink
- kalo, rap -- to climb
- liŋarag, vara -- to hide
- liwun -- to count
- lua -- to vomit
- mamaova -- to yawn
- mapsag -- to breathe
- mate -- to die, be dead
- matur -- to sleep
- mawmawui -- to work
- mʷarae -- to laugh
- mʷas[u] -- to fall
- nonom -- to think
- ŋau, ŋit -- to bite
- palu -- to steal
- pute -- to sit
- qore -- to dream
- rarao, taŋ[i] -- to cry
- riga, sis -- to swell
- risa -- to lie down
- riv -- to plant
- roŋo|tag -- to hear
- sale, wera -- to flow
- sawu, uw -- to blow
- siŋ -- to burn
- sis, sus -- to suck
- soman -- to sniff, smell
- susur -- to sew
- tara -- to cut, hack
- taru, tun/tin, ur -- to cook
- taur -- to hold
- tawalag -- to open, uncover
- tipa -- to pound, beat
- tiqa -- to shoot
- tira, tur -- to stand
- totou -- to grow
- tut, vus -- to hit
- van[o] -- to walk
- vano ma -- to come
- vava, vet -- to say
- vil -- to tie up, fasten
- viro -- to turn
- vivir -- to throw
- vus mate -- to kill