Oroha
Facts
- Language: Oroha
- Alternate names: Mara Ma-Siki, Oraha
- Language code: ora
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southeast Solomonic, Longgu-Malaita-Makira, Malaita-Makira, Malaita, Southern Malaita
- Number of speakers: 38
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Oroha is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in South Malaita island.
The Oroha Verb
Verblist
- āhe -- to flow
- ariʔu -- to turn
- ehu, sunia -- to burn
- eno -- to lie down
- etamia -- to count
- hana -- to eat
- haroʔia -- to kill
- haʔawasi -- to hunt
- heresia -- to hold
- hitaria -- to split
- iri -- to say
- karumia -- to scratch
- kolu -- to drink
- mae -- to die, be dead
- manoasa -- to breathe
- masi -- to laugh
- mauir, mauri -- to live, be alive
- maʔahu -- to sleep
- maʔu -- to fear
- moa -- to vomit
- munoa -- to suck
- nara -- to cry
- nisu -- to spit
- oro, roto -- to swim
- oru, uhia -- to blow
- otomia -- to stab, pierce
- pasua -- to tie up, fasten
- peri -- to steal
- rā mai -- to come
- ra, raihuʔa, raiuru, rā -- to walk
- rapusia -- to hit
- raʔonaʔa -- to think
- rēsi -- to see
- roho, sime -- to fly
- ronoa -- to hear
- rosi -- to squeeze
- saea -- to know, be knowledgeable
- tauria -- to sew
- teke -- to fall
- toʔi -- to work
- toʔoru -- to sit
- ūpu -- to swell
- ura -- to stand
- wasu -- to sniff, smell
- ʔai tapi, hunua, tohua -- to cut, hack
- ʔaraia -- to bite
- ʔeria -- to dig