Serua
Facts
- Language: Serua
- Alternate names:
- Language code: srw
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timoric A, Northern Timoric A, Teun-Nila-Serua, Nila-Serua
- Number of speakers: No remaining speakers.
- Script: Category
More information:
Introduction
Serua is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Central Maluku Province, south central Seram island, transmigration area. 4 villages.
Dialects
Similar to Nila (See: Nila). Not intelligible with Teun (See: Te’un?).
The Serua Verb
Verblist
- ə ṇ'ai -- to swim
- is'iru -- to cry
- 'jɔmnu -- to drink
- 'kɔnu -- to eat
- 'luʔa -- to vomit
- 'mali -- to laugh
- 'matla -- to scratch
- ṇ'briri -- to stand
- 'nɛna -- to sleep
- ni'brɛna -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ni'klai -- to see
- ni'lɔki -- to walk
- niv'riti -- to spit
- ṇ'iʔi -- to bite
- ṇ'mai -- to come
- ṇ'mati -- to die, be dead
- ṇ'mita -- to dream
- ṇ'nɛma -- to fly
- ṇ'sɛrin -- to hear
- ṇ'tara -- to sit
- ṇ'tuʔu -- to fall
- ṇ'wunu -- to kill
- 'tutnu -- to burn