Suau
Facts
- Language: Suau
- Alternate names: Iou
- Language code: swp
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage, Suauic, Suau chain
- Number of speakers: 6800
- Script:
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Introduction
Suau is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Milne Bay Province, southeasternmost Papua mainland.
Dialects
Bona Bona, Bonarua, Dahuni, Lausaha (Daui, Fife Bay), Leileiafa, Sinaki (Gadaisu, Gaidasu), Suau.
The Suau Verb
Verblist
- ataiei -- to hear
- bawa -- to sit
- beʔu -- to fall
- bodi -- to sew
- dui, tuba -- to swim
- gabu -- to burn
- gahili -- to scratch
- goli -- to stab, pierce
- hasili -- to count
- he-kedewa -- to hunt
- hihi, tam -- to squeeze
- ibo, tom -- to cut, hack
- ie didi -- to flow
- ie lo|i -- to fly
- ie pou -- to swell
- igali -- to split
- laoma -- to come
- laulau -- to walk
- letai -- to bite
- liba -- to say
- lubi -- to hit
- madoi -- to suck
- maliwe -- to vomit
- maluhi -- to laugh
- matausi -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mauli -- to live, be alive
- nom -- to drink
- nuatui -- to think
- sala -- to dig
- tani -- to cry
- tolo -- to stand
- tolo-bui -- to turn
- tu -- to throw
- umai -- to work
- unu|i -- to kill
- yahua -- to breathe
- yuhi -- to blow
- ʔabi -- to hold
- ʔaiʔai -- to eat
- ʔata -- to know, be knowledgeable
- ʔau -- to tie up, fasten
- ʔeno -- to lie down
- ʔeno -- to sleep
- ʔita -- to see