Pingelapese
Facts
- Language: Pingelapese
- Alternate names: Pingelap, Pingilapese
- Language code: pif
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Micronesian, Nuclear Micronesian, Central Micronesian, Western Micronesian, Chuukic-Ponapeic, Ponapeic
- Number of speakers: 2500
- Script:
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Introduction
Pingelapese is a language of Micronesia. It is spoken in Pingelap and Ponape. Also in Guam, United States.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 81% with Pohnpeian (See: Pohnpeian), 79% with Mokilese (See: Mokilese).
The Pingelapese Verb
Verblist
- dae, dedei -- to sew
- daedoahk -- to work
- daur, kireda -- to climb
- ek -- to hide
- inim -- to cook
- kaekaeir -- to grow
- kang -- to eat
- kasepe -- to count
- kemehla -- to kill
- kila -- to see
- koarae -- to scratch
- kousan -- to live, be alive
- kusukus -- to spit
- laemae, pwahnoh -- to think
- led -- to sniff, smell
- mehla -- to die, be dead
- mesik -- to fear
- mɛyr -- to sleep
- mohng -- to breathe
- mwohdi -- to sit
- oureman -- to dream
- pal -- to cut, hack
- palek, waehdi -- to lie down
- pirap, pirapá, pirapae -- to steal
- poadok -- to plant
- pwain-, pwei -- to buy
- pʷɛla-ŋek -- to split
- rɔŋ, roang -- to hear
- saeng, sɛŋ -- to cry
- sehse -- to know, be knowledgeable
- seuliplip -- to choose
- siropi -- to burn
- suk -- to pound, beat
- u -- to stand
- uhk -- to blow
- waeiduh, weiduh -- to walk
- wei -- to dig
- weladpeseng -- to open, uncover