Mwotlap
Facts
- Language: Mwotlap
- Alternate names: Motalava, Motlav
- Language code: MLV
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, East Vanuatu (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: 1800
- Script:
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Introduction
Mwotlap is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Banks Group, Mota Lava (Saddle) island.
Dialects
Dagmel, Valuwa, Volow.
The Mwotlap Verb
Verblist
- bɛl -- to steal
- bɪ n-ɛp hiy -- to burn
- dɪm -- to think
- ɛn -- to lie down
- ɛs, hiɣ -- to stab, pierce
- ɛt yak -- to choose
- ɛt -- to see
- ɣap -- to fly
- ɣayɣay -- to scratch
- ɣayŋmʷa -- to yawn
- ɣɛn -- to eat
- ɣɛy -- to swim
- ɣil -- to dig
- haɣ -- to sit
- hɪmɛn -- to sniff, smell
- ɪɣlal, nɔ-lɔlmɛyɛn -- to know, be knowledgeable
- in -- to drink
- kamkam, ŋɛ -- to chew
- kay -- to shoot
- kpʷaŋyis -- to cook
- kpʷɔap, lʊlʊ + -- to vomit
- kpʷɔykpʷɔy -- to dream
- kpʷɪsdi, sisɣɔy -- to fall
- kpʷʊs -- to pound, beat
- laŋmʷ -- to hit
- lɔŋ -- to flow
- lɪɣ, yɪt -- to tie up, fasten
- mat -- to die, be dead
- mɔtɔw -- to grow
- mɪtɪɣtɛɣ -- to fear
- mitiy -- to sleep
- muwumwu -- to work
- n-ɪh -- to live, be alive
- ninih -- to spit
- ŋit -- to bite
- ŋmʷʊkhɛɣ -- to breathe
- saŋmʷ -- to suck
- ßah, yuw -- to plant
- ßan mɛ -- to come
- ßanßan -- to walk
- ßap -- to say
- ßatah -- to count
- ßiɣiy (lʊ) -- to squeeze
- ßɪy, hɪsɪm -- to turn
- susuy -- to sew
- suwyɛɣ, yim -- to throw
- takpʷ bat -- to hide
- tɔt -- to cut, hack
- tɛŋ -- to cry
- tiɣ -- to stand
- tɪy -- to hold
- ʊw, wak -- to open, uncover
- Vb1 + wɔy -- to split
- wɛyɛh, yip -- to blow
- wɪl -- to buy
- wuh mat -- to kill
- yɔŋtɛɣ -- to hear
- yɛm -- to climb
- yɪɣ -- to swell
- yɪyɪ -- to laugh