Takuu
Facts
- Language: Takuu
- Alternate names: Mortlock, Taku, Tau, Tauu
- Language code: nho
- 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, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian-East Polynesian, Central Northern Outlier Polynesian, Takuuic
- Number of speakers: 1750
- Script:
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Introduction
Takuu is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, Atolls district, northeast of Bougainville, Takuu atoll, Mortlock village.
Dialects
Distinct from Nukumanu (See: Nukumanu?) and Nukuria (See: Nukuria) and Ontong Java (See: Ontong Java) and Sikaiana (See: Sikaiana) in Solomon Islands, though very closely related.
The Takuu Verb
Verblist
- aŋi -- to blow
- ao -- to hold
- au -- to come
- f/faa/ -- to split
- fau, noa -- to tie up, fasten
- fe/arati/ -- to scratch
- fili -- to choose
- fotafota, kumi, romi -- to squeeze
- iloa, kkafi -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kai -- to eat
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- kau -- to swim
- keri -- to dig
- maanatu, manatu -- to think
- maanava -- to breathe
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- miti -- to dream
- moe -- to sleep
- nau -- to chew
- nofo -- to sit
- ora -- to live, be alive
- paki, taa, tuki -- to hit
- rua -- to vomit
- sare -- to walk
- sere, t/tuu/, vasi -- to cut, hack
- somo, tori -- to grow
- sui -- to buy
- suki -- to stab, pierce
- t/tafe/ -- to flow
- taaraki -- to open, uncover
- takoto -- to lie down
- tani -- to cry
- tao -- to cook
- tau -- to count
- too -- to fall
- tori -- to plant
- tui -- to sew
- tuki -- to pound, beat
- tuni/a -- to burn
- tuu -- to stand
- unu -- to drink
- uu -- to bite