Siar-Lak
Facts
- Language: Siar-Lak
- Alternate names: Lak, Lamassa, Lambom, Siar
- Language code: sjr
- 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
- Number of speakers: 2080
- Script:
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Introduction
Siar-Lak is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Southern New Ireland Province, Namatanai district.
The Siar-Lak Verb
Verblist
- ager -- to turn
- aim -- to plant
- akas -- to dig
- akor, anas, iaiavuh -- to cook
- angan -- to eat
- arting, tagur -- to cut, hack
- basi -- to throw
- dakai, sot -- to burn
- gang -- to drink
- gom -- to grow
- ian, inan -- to walk
- ieliel -- to swim
- ima -- to come
- kam erbe -- to dream
- kes -- to sit
- kes, laín -- to live, be alive
- ki borbor, korbor, masun -- to sleep
- kikiók -- to vomit
- kirikinau -- to steal
- langar -- to laugh
- longrai -- to hear
- maluás -- to breathe
- mamai, ngas -- to chew
- matutut -- to fear
- moh -- to yawn
- nat -- to die, be dead
- ngangas -- to bite
- ngek -- to cry
- nosnos -- to hunt
- pagal -- to split
- paslakman -- to open, uncover
- poros -- to squeeze
- poson -- to tie up, fasten
- pung -- to fall
- re -- to see
- rovói -- to fly
- siring -- to swell
- sus -- to suck
- susuk -- to sew
- tapuk -- to lie down
- tasimon -- to know, be knowledgeable
- tolói -- to hold
- tur -- to stand
- um -- to kill
- vun -- to hide
- vuvut -- to blow
- warwar -- to say
- wawas -- to count
- woh -- to sniff, smell