Phake
Facts
- Language: Phake
- Alternate names: Faake, Phakey, Phakial
- Language code: phk
- Language family: Tai-Kadai, Kam-Tai, Daic-Beic, Daic, Central-Southwestern Tai, Wenma-Southwestern Tai, Sapa-Southwestern Tai, Southwestern Tai, Southwestern Tai P, Shan Tai, Assam Tai, Phakeic
- Number of speakers: 2000
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Phake is a language of India. It is spoken in Assam, Dibrugarh district, Bor-phake, Nam-phake, Tipam-phake, Man-long, Man-po-mung, Pha-neng, Ning-gam, Nong-lai, and Mung-lang villages along Dihing river; Arunachal Pradesh.
Dialects
Similar to Aiton (See: Aiton). Similar to Shan (See: Shan) of Myanmar.
The Phake Verb
Verblist
- ကွ်
- တုတ်
- ထံ
- ပႝ
- ꩬီ
- a:3, ki:5, pɛn2, put1 -- to open, uncover
- a:n1, nuk4 -- to count
- caiŋ5, cak1, hu:4 -- to know, be knowledgeable
- cuk1, luk4 -- to stand
- cup1, hut4 -- to suck
- ha:1 -- to breathe
- ha:k4, lɔ1 ha:k4 -- to vomit
- ha:u6 -- to yawn
- hai3 -- to cry
- han6, nu:2 -- to see
- hat4, mat1, phuk1 -- to tie up, fasten
- hiu3 -- to hold
- huŋ6, tom3 -- to cook
- i:2, mip1 -- to squeeze
- ka:p1, kat1 -- to bite
- kaü3 -- to swell
- kha:3 -- to kill
- kha:i6, win1 -- to turn
- kha:k4, tau1 -- to spit
- khə:1, tən1 -- to scratch
- kho6 -- to laugh
- khut1, kon1 -- to dig
- khün3 -- to climb
- kin2 -- to eat
- ko2, ŋɛw6 -- to fear
- lai6 -- to flow
- lak4 -- to steal
- lap4, mɛp1 -- to hide
- lɔi2 nam4, pha:i2 -- to swim
- lək4 -- to choose
- lom2, nom2 -- to sniff, smell
- lüm4 -- to drink
- ma:2, pa:2 -- to come
- mai3 -- to burn
- men2 -- to fly
- muk4 so2 -- to hunt
- nam5, puk1 -- to plant
- naŋ5 -- to sit
- nɔn2 -- to lie down
- nɔn2 -- to sleep
- pai2. pha:i3 -- to walk
- pha:1, phaik1 -- to split
- phan6 -- to dream
- phiu1, phu:1 -- to blow
- po:t1 -- to shoot
- puk1 -- to grow
- sap1, taiŋ2 -- to stab, pierce
- sü:4 -- to buy
- ta:i2 -- to die, be dead
- tam2 -- to pound, beat
- tɛp1 -- to cut, hack
- thɔm1, ŋin2 -- to hear
- thim3, wet4 -- to throw
- thuk1 -- to hit
- tok1 -- to fall
- u:1 -- to live, be alive
- wa:5 -- to say
- yap4 -- to sew
- yɛm4 -- to chew
- yuŋ6 -- to work