Nêlêmwa-Nixumwak
Facts
- Language: Nêlêmwa-Nixumwak
- Alternate names: Fwa-Goumak, Koumac, Kumak
- Language code: nee
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southern Melanesian, New Caledonian, Mainland New Caledonian, Northern New Caledonian, Extreme Northern New Caledonian, Kum-Nel-Yua-Cac, Kum-Nel-Yua
- Number of speakers: 1090
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Nêlêmwa-Nixumwak is a language of New Caledonia. It is spoken in West coast, Koumac (Nixumwak) and Poum (Nelemwa).
Dialects
Nelemwa (Nelema, Nenema), Nixumwak (Fwa Kumak, Koumac, Kumak). Dialect differences mostly phonological and lexical.
The Nêlêmwa-Nixumwak Verb
Verblist
- ap -- to laugh
- axe -- to see
- bwage -- to turn
- ceego -- to bite
- cimwi -- to hold
- ciuxa -- to squeeze
- coxaada -- to climb
- faxi -- to cook
- fha, uvi -- to blow
- fuk -- to fly
- fuup -- to swell
- fwaxe -- to spit
- gi -- to cry
- hân -- to hunt
- haxexee -- to fear
- hiru -- to scratch
- hmage -- to tie up, fasten
- hoalam -- to yawn
- iyu -- to buy
- kaage -- to steal
- kâlâp -- to lie down
- khabwe -- to say
- khami -- to choose
- khi -- to pound, beat
- khibwaa -- to cut, hack
- khiiboxa -- to throw
- khiidale -- to split
- khîlî -- to burn
- khomi -- to count
- khuwo -- to eat
- kôk -- to vomit
- kuut -- to stand
- kuxâyoot -- to hide
- kûxû -- to drink
- maak -- to die, be dead
- mago -- to sleep
- malep -- to live, be alive
- nanami -- to think
- nivi- -- to dream
- nuk -- to fall
- oo-me -- to come
- pae -- to shoot
- pa-maaxa -- to kill
- shaaxi -- to chew
- shaya -- to work
- shêlâ -- to know, be knowledgeable
- taabwa -- to sit
- tâlâ -- to hear
- tâlâ -- to sniff, smell
- tami -- to open, uncover
- tet -- to suck
- tha -- to stab, pierce
- thaxa -- to sew
- thaxe -- to plant
- thi -- to hit
- tho -- to flow
- uvaup -- to breathe
- waara -- to grow
- wâlem -- to walk
- yha -- to swim
- yuura -- to dig