Rakahanga-Manihiki
Facts
- Language: Rakahanga-Manihiki
- Alternate names: Manihiki-Rakahanga
- Language code: rkh
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Solomons Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, East Polynesian, Central Eastern Polynesian
- Number of speakers: 320
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Rakahanga-Manihiki is a language of Cook Islands. It is spoken in Northern Cook Islands, Rakahanga and Manihiki islands. Also in New Zealand.
Dialects
Limited intelligibility of Rarotongan (See: Rarotongan).
The Rakahanga-Manihiki Verb
Verblist
- (faka)ue, (pa)pale, fakaninihi, huri -- to turn
- (haka)mahara, hakamanako, maharahara -- to think
- angaanga -- to work
- aro, haere mai, hano mai, nau mai, romai, tau mai -- to come
- fakahongi, haunga -- to sniff, smell
- fakamui, hakamui -- to throw
- fakarongo, hakaronga, langona -- to hear
- fakaroroma, miti(miti), ngote -- to suck
- fana, pupuhi -- to shoot
- haamama -- to yawn
- haere -- to walk
- hakaea, maanava -- to breathe
- hakaea, puena -- to swell
- hakakee, hakamangamanga, tete, vaahi -- to split
- hakaoo, roromi, tatau -- to squeeze
- heheke -- to flow
- hele, lii, nati, nonoa, taapeka -- to tie up, fasten
- hiti, mate -- to die, be dead
- hopu vai, hopuhopu, kaukau -- to swim
- huataa, lutu, patu, tuki, uu -- to hit
- huuvare, puaki -- to spit
- inu -- to drink
- kaa, tutu -- to burn
- kai, kaikai -- to eat
- kaiaa -- to steal
- kakati -- to bite
- kata -- to laugh
- keri, keru -- to dig
- ki -- to say
- kite, maarama -- to know, be knowledgeable
- langa (kavou) -- to hunt
- maalohilohi, ora -- to live, be alive
- maatataku, mataku -- to fear
- mau -- to hold
- moe -- to sleep
- moemoeaa, rikamoe -- to dream
- ngaungau -- to chew
- noho -- to sit
- paatiatia, pupuhi, velo, vero -- to stab, pierce
- paraku, raraku -- to scratch
- patu, pehi ki te toka, taa, taamate -- to kill
- piki -- to climb
- punipuni -- to hide
- pupuhi -- to blow
- rere -- to fly
- roharoha, takato -- to lie down
- ruaki -- to vomit
- ruru (ruuruu?), tuitui -- to sew
- taale, tatauanga -- to count
- tangi, tatangi -- to cry
- titi tiro, titiro -- to see
- topa -- to fall
- tunu, tō -- to cook
- tuu -- to stand