Niuafo’ou
Facts
- Language: Niuafo’ou
- Alternate names:
- Language code: num
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, East Uvean-Niuafo'ou
- Number of speakers: 690
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Niuafo’ou is a language of Tonga. It is spoken in Niuafo’ou and ’Eua islands.
Dialects
Probably a dialect of East Uvean (See: Wallisian).
The Niuafo’ou Verb
Verblist
- 'a'anu -- to spit
- fanongo -- to hear
- 'ilifia -- to fear
- 'ilo -- to know, be knowledgeable
- inu -- to drink
- kai -- to eat
- kakau -- to swim
- kata -- to laugh
- lamu -- to chew
- lea -- to say
- lua -- to vomit
- mate -- to die, be dead
- moe -- to sleep
- mo'ui -- to live, be alive
- nofo -- to sit
- puke -- to hold
- pula -- to swell
- tafe -- to flow
- tō -- to fall
- tokoto -- to lie down
- tolo -- to throw
- tuki -- to hit
- tu'u -- to stand
- tu'usi -- to cut, hack