Saposa
Facts
- Language: Saposa
- Alternate names:
- Language code: sps
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, St George linkage, Northwest Solomonic, North Bougainville Oceanic, Nuclear North Bougainville Oceanic, Buka, Saposa-Tinputz
- Number of speakers: 1400
- Script:
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Introduction
Saposa is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, Buka district, island chain south of Buka Island off northwest coast of Bougainville.
Dialects
Saposa (Fa Saposa), Taiof.
The Saposa Verb
Verblist
- abar -- to see
- aiŋ -- to eat
- akor -- to burn
- aŋas -- to chew
- asas -- to count
- atuiŋ -- to kill
- baira -- to dig
- binun -- to work
- fahonon, nana -- to cook
- fana -- to shoot
- gian -- to grow
- goros -- to sleep
- kabuts -- to steal
- kar -- to scratch
- kaya -- to hide
- keta -- to say
- kisuf -- to spit
- kitskits -- to tie up, fasten
- koteh -- to bite
- mat-en -- to die, be dead
- muaf -- to yawn
- naiŋ -- to hunt
- naom -- to hold
- nat -- to know, be knowledgeable
- noŋon -- to hear
- nua -- to vomit
- om -- to come
- or -- to laugh
- orav -- to fear
- pots -- to squeeze
- pua -- to swell
- rak -- to hit
- ruaf -- to fly
- sifuas -- to breathe
- sisiuf -- to swim
- sus -- to suck
- taf -- to blow
- tahun -- to lie down
- takan -- to plant
- tan -- to walk
- taŋis -- to cry
- taof -- to sniff, smell
- tat -- to throw
- tatsiu -- to flow
- tora -- to dream
- toto -- to live, be alive
- tsidup -- to fall
- tutun -- to stand
- vagum -- to sit
- vinau -- to cut, hack
- vir -- to sew
- vosa -- to split
- yiu -- to drink