Pukapuka
Facts
- Language: Pukapuka
- Alternate names: Bukabukan, Pukapukan
- Language code: pkp
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 450
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Pukapuka is a language of Cook Islands. It is spoken in Pukapuka and Nassau islands, northern Cook Islands; 200 in Rarotonga. Also in Australia, New Zealand.
Dialects
Not intelligible with Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan) or other Cook Islands languages. Related to Samoan (See: Samoan).
The Pukapuka Verb
Verblist
- angiangi
- lala
- mala
- mina
- tai
- tangi
- tuleki
- uta
- veia
- wena
- yala
- āngi
- akaea -- to breathe
- angānga, yanga -- to work
- iloa, mau, māwutu, wanewane, īloloa -- to know, be knowledgeable
- inu -- to drink
- kai, kaikai, lamulamu, tamitami, taumamaya -- to eat
- kaiā -- to steal
- kakau, tākele -- to swim
- kake, wiwiti ki lunga -- to climb
- kamo, newu, tili, uti -- to throw
- kata, kākata -- to laugh
- kati -- to bite
- kauwi, tatau, wakalau -- to count
- keli, tolo -- to dig
- kimi, wili -- to choose
- kite, kitea -- to see
- kō, yoka, yuki -- to stab, pierce
- koti, yemu -- to cut, hack
- kuku, kume -- to squeeze
- laku -- to scratch
- langona, longo -- to hear
- lele, pepeke, welele -- to fly
- liko, tango -- to hold
- lolo mai, lōmamai, wōmamai, yau -- to come
- lowi, moe, momoe -- to sleep
- lua, luaki -- to vomit
- makulu, pangulu, tō, yinga, yīyinga -- to fall
- manako, manatu, mayala -- to think
- mataku, mātataku -- to fear
- mate, palewa, palewe, payako, pānakia -- to die, be dead
- mea -- to say
- miti, moemiti -- to dream
- miti, ngote -- to suck
- moe ki lalo, takoto -- to lie down
- nanā -- to hide
- ngaungau -- to chew
- niniwi, pale, paniwi, tipa, uwe, wuli -- to turn
- nō, nōnō -- to sit
- oko -- to buy
- ola, ōla -- to live, be alive
- patu -- to kill
- patu, vayi -- to hit
- patupatu, tukituki -- to pound, beat
- poki, tanu, toki -- to plant
- puaki, yuuvale -- to spit
- pupute -- to swell
- puyi, āngi -- to blow
- tangi, tatangi, wetangi -- to cry
- tao, tunu, tunu pāni -- to cook
- tū, wetū -- to stand
- tui -- to sew
- tupu -- to grow
- tutu -- to burn
- ulu, wuli, yākili -- to hunt
- vavayi -- to split
- waka/manga -- to yawn
- wena -- to shoot
- wuke, wuwuke, yuke, yuyuke -- to open, uncover
- yaele, yāeleele -- to walk
- yeke -- to flow
- yele -- to tie up, fasten
- yongi -- to sniff, smell