Nauruan
Facts
- Language: Nauruan
- Alternate names:
- Language code: nau
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian
- Number of speakers: 6000
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Nauruan is a language of Nauru. It is spoken in Nauru Island.
The Nauruan Verb
Verblist
- aw
- eredu
- odu
- okabebe
- pumwe
- tsim
- wono
- abi -- to kill
- akȯda -- to climb
- aŋan, torere -- to steal
- at -- to see
- důgidugo -- to walk
- e|ma -- to die, be dead
- eaij -- to cut, hack
- ean-ȯaŋȯ, ka-mwo-mwuu-da -- to vomit
- ebo ean, tamwit -- to hit
- ėgėg -- to hold
- eȯŋ, iȯŋ -- to cry
- eren, nim -- to drink
- erenimi -- to dream
- erȯ, ŋabeda -- to grow
- erow, tuwab -- to buy
- ewewin -- to hide
- gato -- to shoot
- goriro -- to flow
- idȯdȯ -- to laugh
- ij -- to choose
- imin ere -- to plant
- iri -- to dig
- ititsiet -- to know, be knowledgeable
- jima, mwat -- to squeeze
- jir -- to sew
- kaiȯt -- to hear
- kamwit -- to bite
- makur -- to work
- mama -- to chew
- megeda -- to sit
- mijimij -- to sleep
- miow -- to fear
- ȯdů -- to count
- ȯeȯŋ -- to blow
- ȯeta, eŋam -- to fly
- ȯmaran, jamarar -- to think
- ȯn, ijeiji -- to eat
- ȯnano -- to breathe
- ȯŋ -- to burn
- ȯpwe -- to swell
- oquȯr -- to tie up, fasten
- ȯrre, tůkȯ -- to come
- pudu -- to fall
- tsi|mor -- to live, be alive
- tsitsin -- to cook
- ůge -- to say
- ura -- to spit
- waij bon -- to sniff, smell
- åw -- to swim