Palauan
Facts
- Language: Palauan
- Alternate names: Belauan, Palau
- Language code: pau
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 14800
- Script:
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Introduction
Palauan is a language of Palau. It is spoken in Palau Islands. Also in Guam, United States.
Dialects
Little dialect variation.
The Palauan Verb
Verblist
- bangch
- bau
- becheleleu
- bekatel
- bekebau
- bekekatuu
- bekengikel
- bekerkard
- beroroech
- berorou
- bibrurek
- bungungau
- chedelekelek
- chedeleualek
- cheriich
- dechor
- dengarech
- harau
- kikaol
- kmard
- mad
- mekerkard
- melalem
- melamech
- melasech
- melengarech
- mellemau
- mellil
- melub
- melul
- mengeleleu
- mengeriich
- mererengeringel
- merir
- merorou
- ngar
- omalk
- omralm
- oumellemau
- oumerorou
- ulalk
- [me]dakt -- to fear
- [o]uás -- to yawn
- [o]ureór -- to work
- bangch -- to bite
- berróus -- to dream
- dechór -- to stand
- dmung -- to say
- durs -- to sleep
- dúubech -- to grow
- kiéi -- to sit
- lmángel -- to cry
- mad -- to die, be dead
- mechiuáiu -- to lie down
- medúch -- to know, be knowledgeable
- méi -- to come
- melálem -- to plant
- melamech, melechedáchem, meringet -- to chew
- melbótb -- to split
- meléb -- to kill
- melechótech -- to pound, beat
- meléseb -- to burn
- melidáb -- to climb
- melílt -- to choose
- melím -- to drink
- meliókl -- to cook
- melmótm -- to suck
- melóko -- to blow
- melúb -- to spit
- melúng[e]l -- to sniff, smell
- mengáng -- to eat
- mengedúb -- to swim
- mengéleb -- to hide
- mengesóim -- to turn
- mengíis -- to dig
- mengímd -- to cut, hack
- mengkás -- to scratch
- menglébed -- to hit
- mengól -- to steal
- meráel -- to flow
- meráel -- to walk
- merásm -- to sew
- merrítel -- to hunt
- merús -- to stab, pierce
- mesáur -- to tie up, fasten
- múdech -- to vomit
- ngar -- to live, be alive
- obáng -- to hold
- obtíngel -- to swell
- ocherchúr -- to laugh
- omdásu -- to think
- omechár -- to buy
- omechúr -- to count
- omés -- to see
- omét -- to squeeze
- omóes -- to shoot
- omók -- to open, uncover
- orrébet -- to fall
- orrénges -- to hear
- outelíl -- to breathe
- suébek -- to fly
- uétech -- to throw