Sobei
Facts
- Language: Sobei
- Alternate names: Biga, Imasi, Liki
- Language code: sob
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Sarmi-Jayapura Bay, Sarmi, Sobei-Liki-Wakde, Sobei-Liki
- Number of speakers: 1000
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Sobei is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Papua Province, Sarmi regency, Sarmi subdistrict, north coast area east of Sarmi.
Dialects
Comprehension of Liki (See: Liki?).
The Sobei Verb
Verblist
- adau raʔreʔ -- to pound, beat
- a-dus -- to cut, hack
- a-fas, a-so -- to plant
- afau -- to tie up, fasten
- a-fda -- to hear
- afefipar -- to vomit
- afei -- to cook
- afeʔ -- to throw
- a-fir, ferfir -- to choose
- afoʔ -- to open, uncover
- a-fun aper -- to kill
- a-fun -- to hit
- a-mus -- to drink
- a-mus -- to suck
- aper -- to die, be dead
- are -- to split
- a-rispar -- to turn
- a-rom -- to see
- a-rseya -- to work
- a-so -- to stab, pierce
- a-tur -- to squeeze
- awo -- to walk
- a-yas -- to swim
- aʔat -- to dig
- denun -- to live, be alive
- dodut -- to scratch
- eboʔoit -- to burn
- edoit -- to fall
- efti -- to buy
- e-ma -- to come
- emiar -- to flow
- epor -- to fly
- e-tan -- to cry
- etisa -- to climb
- -fan -- to shoot
- faruna -- to blow
- fator -- to say
- fenʔo -- to steal
- feŋgomu -- to think
- iki -- to stand
- imarois -- to sit
- imimʔaʔot -- to count
- imnas -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kin -- to eat
- mermit -- to laugh
- moni sarʔe -- to dream
- moni -- to lie down
- moni -- to sleep
- nenʔa -- to fear
- prarapor -- to swell
- sesi -- to sew
- sumanan -- to sniff, smell
- sumaro -- to breathe
- taput -- to hold
- uarimran -- to spit
- yatoʔ -- to bite