Nila
Facts
- Language: Nila
- Alternate names:
- Language code: nil
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timoric A, Northern Timoric A, Teun-Nila-Serua, Nila-Serua
- Number of speakers: No remaining speakers.
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Nila is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Central Maluku Province, south central Seram island transmigration area. 6 villages. (Originally Nila island in south central Maluku).
Dialects
Similar to Serua (See: Serua). Not intelligible with Teun (See: Te’un?).
The Nila Verb
Verblist
- 'frɛna -- to know, be knowledgeable
- 'fulnu -- to kill
- 'mɔrpi -- to come
- ṃ'rirri -- to stand
- ṃtu'ni -- to burn
- na'ɛna -- to eat
- 'nani -- to swim
- nɔm'ni -- to drink
- 'nema -- to fly
- 'nɛna -- to sleep
- nif'rɛti -- to spit
- nima'tɛla -- to scratch
- nim'jatu -- to dream
- ni'rɛnu -- to cry
- ṇ'lɔka -- to walk
- ṇ'mali -- to laugh
- ṇ'mata -- to die, be dead
- ṇ'muta -- to vomit
- ṇ'tara -- to sit
- ṇ'tuʔu -- to fall
- ṇ'ʔiʔi -- to bite
- sɛ'rina -- to hear
- ta'kɛra -- to see