Nage
Facts
- Language: Nage
- Alternate names: Nagé, Nage-Keo
- Language code: nxe
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata, Flores-Sumba-Hawu, Flores Barat, Central Flores-Paluqe, Central Flores, Eastern Central Flores, Nage-Keo
- Number of speakers: 50000
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Nage is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in East Nusa Tenggara Province. Central Flores island, Ebu Lobo volcano north, west slopes. Northeast of Ngad’a (See: Ngad’a?) language area.
The Nage Verb
Verblist
- bé'o -- to know, be knowledgeable
- betta -- to buy
- bhobha -- to hit
- bowo -- to swell
- dao, teppu -- to hold
- dawi -- to stand
- dho -- to pound, beat
- dhou -- to work
- ghéjé -- to squeeze
- gula -- to see
- hé -- to think
- inu -- to drink
- ita -- to cry
- ka -- to eat
- kabhu sati -- to sew
- keddha -- to open, uncover
- kiki -- to bite
- koe -- to dig
- la'a -- to walk
- lélé -- to hear
- li'u -- to turn
- lua -- to spit
- mata -- to die, be dead
- mecco -- to suck
- moapa -- to yawn
- mula -- to plant
- muta -- to vomit
- muzi -- to live, be alive
- nade -- to sleep
- naka -- to steal
- nangu -- to swim
- ngai -- to breathe
- ngaju -- to chew
- nipi -- to dream
- pasa -- to shoot
- peddhe -- to cook
- petté -- to tie up, fasten
- pili -- to choose
- podhu -- to sit
- pogo -- to cut, hack
- poké -- to throw
- pulu'e -- to say
- sasi -- to scratch
- segga -- to stab, pierce
- séngu -- to sniff, smell
- taku -- to fear
- taso -- to come
- tawa -- to laugh
- tebbu -- to grow
- tua lako -- to hunt
- wéla -- to kill
- wéla -- to split