Rapa
Facts
- Language: Rapa
- Alternate names: Rapan
- Language code: ray
- 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: 300
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
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Introduction
Rapa is a language of French Polynesia. It is spoken in Austral Islands, Rapa (Rapa Iti) island, Ha’urei and ’Area.
Dialects
May be a dialect of Austral (See: Austral).
The Rapa Verb
Verblist
- ka, vera -- to burn
- kaikai -- to eat
- keri -- to dig
- maa/tu -- to walk
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- moekee -- to dream
- momi -- to drink
- ngaʔu -- to bite
- noʔo -- to sit
- rako/rako -- to scratch
- rere -- to fly
- ta/kave -- to hit
- ta/kave -- to kill
- tangi -- to cry
- tira -- to throw
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- ʔaka/moe -- to sleep
- ʔakaea -- to breathe
- ʔakarongo -- to hear
- ʔanga -- to work
- ʔarooro -- to lie down
- ʔongi -- to sniff, smell
- ʔuri -- to turn