Nukuria
Facts
- Language: Nukuria
- Alternate names: Fead, Nahoa, Nuguria
- Language code: nur
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian, Takuuic
- Number of speakers: 550
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Nukuria is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, Atolls district, northeast of Bougainville island, Nukuria atoll.
Dialects
Nukeria.
The Nukuria Verb
Verblist
- (hare) u/vela -- to burn
- a/pau -- to count
- ele, mahanu, masani -- to fly
- ha/fa -- to cut, hack
- hai/narue -- to work
- hanu -- to spit
- hare -- to come
- hiai -- to think
- hu/kai -- to eat
- iloa -- to know, be knowledgeable
- inu -- to drink
- kai-huhu -- to steal
- kakau -- to swim
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- keri teluo -- to dig
- lua -- to vomit
- mata, oi/mata -- to see
- miti -- to dream
- nofo -- to sit
- riechen -- to sniff, smell
- tamau -- to tie up, fasten
- tani -- to cry
- tara/tara -- to say
- taraki -- to open, uncover
- tau -- to buy
- tau -- to hold
- teri/a -- to throw
- tinai -- to kill
- tipu -- to grow
- to/kilalo -- to fall
- tu -- to stand
- tunu -- to cook
- u/lono -- to hear
- u/mate -- to die, be dead
- u/moe -- to sleep
- umi/umi -- to bite
- vaiu -- to chew