Sikaiana
Facts
- Language: Sikaiana
- Alternate names: Sikayana
- Language code: sky
- 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
- Number of speakers: 730
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Sikaiana is a language of Solomon Islands. It is spoken in Central Solomons, Sikaiana atoll.
Dialects
Similar to Luangiua (See: Ontong Java) (Ontong Java).
The Sikaiana Verb
Verblist
- aaha, taalaki -- to open, uncover
- ani/ani -- to blow
- atamai, iloa -- to know, be knowledgeable
- hā, vae -- to split
- haele, saele -- to walk
- hakateletele -- to think
- hale mai -- to come
- hau -- to tie up, fasten
- hekau -- to work
- hili -- to choose
- hula/hula -- to swell
- k/kumi/ -- to squeeze
- kai -- to eat
- kaiaa -- to steal
- kakau, koukou -- to swim
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- keli -- to dig
- kite -- to see
- l/laku, laku/laku -- to scratch
- lele -- to flow
- lele -- to fly
- lono -- to hear
- lua -- to vomit
- m(iti)miti, umiumi -- to suck
- maamaa -- to chew
- maanava -- to breathe
- maka'u, mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- moe -- to lie down
- moe -- to sleep
- noho -- to sit
- nunu -- to bite
- ola -- to live, be alive
- pau -- to count
- pehi -- to throw
- saona, sunu -- to sniff, smell
- sāvale -- to spit
- sele -- to cut, hack
- sese -- to hunt
- sina -- to fall
- somo, tupu -- to grow
- sooka/i, sookai, suki -- to stab, pierce
- sui -- to buy
- taa -- to hit
- taa -- to kill
- tahuli -- to turn
- tani -- to cry
- tao -- to cook
- taohi -- to hold
- tātala -- to say
- too/too -- to plant
- tui -- to sew
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- tutu, tuunia -- to burn
- tuu -- to stand
- unu -- to drink