Ngaju
Facts
- Language: Ngaju
- Alternate names: Biadju, Dayak Ngaju, Ngadju, Ngaja, Ngaju Dayak, Southwest Barito
- Language code: nij
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Basap-Greater Barito, Greater Barito linkage, South West Greater Barito
- Number of speakers: 890000
- Script:
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Introduction
Ngaju is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Central Kalimantan Province. Upper reaches or headwaters of Kapuas, Kahayan, Katingan, and Mentaya rivers.
Dialects
Ba’amang (Bara-Bare, Sampit), Kahayan, Kahayan Kapuas, Katingan Ngaju, Katingan Ngawa, Mantangai (Oloh Mangtangai), Pulopetak. Related to Bakumpai (See: Bakumpai?). Lexical similarity: 75% with Bakumpai (See: Bakumpai?), 62% with Kohin (See: Kohin?), 50% with Ot Danum (See: Ot Danum), 35% with Banjar (See: Banjar).
The Ngaju Verb
Verblist
- belum
- dumah
- ihup
- kuman
- masa
- masah
- panggang
- tulak
- ukur
- bagawi, baqawi -- to work
- bakehu, mamapoi -- to burn
- balum-barigas, belum -- to live, be alive
- bapikir -- to think
- barapi, maluntuh, mampakasak, manjuhu -- to cook
- batiruh -- to sleep
- belum, tumbu, tumbu' -- to grow
- dumah -- to come
- gite, manampayah, mite' -- to see
- hamauh -- to say
- hamis, mahamis, micik -- to squeeze
- hanangoi, hanangui -- to swim
- himun, mahambus, mahimun -- to blow
- imbing, mimbing -- to hold
- ise, mise, mise' -- to count
- jipak, manyipa', n'jipak, ngunyah, simpa -- to chew
- katawa'a, katawam -- to know, be knowledgeable
- katawe, tatawe, tatawe' -- to laugh
- kembang, manqembanq -- to swell
- kuman -- to eat
- lumpat, mandai, mandai', manyakei -- to climb
- mahaseng, manahaseng -- to breathe
- mahasur -- to flow
- mahining, manyeneh -- to hear
- mahiwang, mules, mules ka gantau -- to turn
- mahurung, mandup, manyelek, mengan, mimpa -- to hunt
- malalap -- to yawn
- maluja, maluyah -- to spit
- mamanah, manem bak -- to shoot
- mamangkit, mangirut, manqirut -- to bite
- mamanjung, mananjung -- to walk
- mamatum, manamqis, manangis, manatum -- to cry
- mambewau, manyingut, manyium, singut -- to sniff, smell
- mameteng, manjarat, me-teng, nali -- to tie up, fasten
- mamili', mili -- to buy
- mampatei -- to kill
- mamukul, mangkong, melang, metoppetop -- to hit
- manakau, nakaw -- to steal
- manepe', tempe -- to pound, beat
- manetek -- to cut, hack
- mangali, manqali -- to dig
- manggaruk, manggayaw, manqqayau -- to scratch
- manjakah, medak -- to throw
- manjatu, manjatu' -- to fall
- manupi -- to dream
- manyahukan, menyahukan, sahukan -- to hide
- manyila -- to split
- manyuduk, munu -- to stab, pierce
- matei, nihaw -- to die, be dead
- mendeng -- to stand
- menter, penter -- to lie down
- mihup -- to drink
- mikeh -- to fear
- mimbul -- to plant
- mintih -- to choose
- minyop, minyup -- to suck
- mitur, mitur[mamitur] -- to sew
- muap, mukei -- to open, uncover
- munduk -- to sit
- muta, muta' -- to vomit
- tarawang, tarawanq -- to fly