Patpatar
Facts
- Language: Patpatar
- Alternate names: Gelik, Patpari
- Language code: gfk
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Patpatar-Minigir-Tolai
- Number of speakers: 7000
- Script:
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Introduction
Patpatar is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, south central Namatanai district.
Dialects
Pala, Patpatar, Sokirik.
The Patpatar Verb
Verblist
- bubing -- to kill
- burut -- to fear
- dup -- to suck
- gugulum -- to throw
- hadade -- to hear
- halo, halulungo -- to burn
- han -- to walk
- iabis -- to spit
- ian -- to eat
- ianga, tange -- to say
- ias -- to swim
- karat -- to bite
- kas -- to scratch
- kato -- to cut, hack
- kawas -- to climb
- kikil -- to dig
- kikinau -- to steal
- kis -- to sit
- kubaba, noh -- to sleep
- kubus -- to tie up, fasten
- kukul -- to buy
- kukur -- to grow
- kurus -- to laugh
- lampap -- to hunt
- laplapot -- to shoot
- lawat -- to hit
- lilik -- to think
- lou -- to live, be alive
- mai -- to come
- manasung -- to breathe
- marmarue -- to vomit
- mat -- to die, be dead
- minonas -- to know, be knowledgeable
- mom -- to drink
- momoiah -- to yawn
- mun -- to hide
- musala -- to chew
- nes -- to see
- noh napu -- to lie down
- palage, paleng -- to split
- palim -- to hold
- papalin -- to work
- papos -- to open, uncover
- pilak, pipilak -- to choose
- puh -- to blow
- puko, sasot -- to fall
- pukus -- to turn
- pupungo -- to fly
- pus -- to squeeze
- sago -- to stab, pierce
- salir -- to flow
- sinaso -- to plant
- singit -- to sew
- singnane -- to sniff, smell
- suah -- to cry
- sus -- to swell
- tur, tut -- to stand
- tut -- to pound, beat
- tutun -- to cook
- was, wawas -- to count