Rotuman
Facts
- Language: Rotuman
- Alternate names: Rotuna, Rutuman
- Language code: rtm
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage
- Number of speakers: 9000
- Script:
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Introduction
Rotuman is a language of Fiji. It is spoken in Rotuma Island.
The Rotuman Verb
Verblist
- 'ā -- to eat
- a'fại -- to hear
- 'ạfi -- to bite
- a'häe -- to think
- ala -- to die, be dead
- al'ạki -- to kill
- ạnusi -- to spit
- ạ'u -- to dig
- 'ea -- to say
- fa'a -- to split
- fại -- to cut, hack
- fana -- to shoot
- feā -- to fear
- fere -- to fly
- fū -- to stand
- funu -- to cook
- fupu -- to grow
- furi -- to turn
- garue, veko -- to work
- hako, hapo, joro -- to climb
- hana'o -- to steal
- hao -- to plant
- hata -- to count
- hili -- to choose
- hō -- to squeeze
- huga -- to breathe
- huga -- to sniff, smell
- hula -- to swell
- 'imo -- to drink
- 'inea -- to know, be knowledgeable
- iri, ui -- to blow
- jau -- to hunt
- jav'ạki -- to hit
- kahā -- to laugh
- kir'ạki -- to throw
- kō -- to stab, pierce
- kuji -- to suck
- la'o -- to walk
- mama -- to chew
- mauri -- to live, be alive
- mo'o -- to hide
- mose -- to sleep
- muaväe -- to yawn
- mumufa -- to vomit
- 'o'oro -- to tie up, fasten
- ou -- to cry
- päe -- to sit
- rạpi -- to swim
- räe mose -- to dream
- räe -- to see
- sạfu -- to flow
- sạhi -- to scratch
- sapo -- to hold
- susu, tui -- to sew
- susunu -- to burn
- säe -- to open, uncover
- taktaka -- to lie down
- teu -- to come
- togi -- to buy
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- vili -- to fall