Tangga
Facts
- Language: Tangga
- Alternate names: Tanga
- Language code: tgg
- 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: 5800
- Script:
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Introduction
Tangga is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, Tanga Islands, Anir island. 3 villages.
Dialects
Anir (Feni), Maket, Tanga.
The Tangga Verb
Verblist
- a:we, so -- to plant
- boŋ -- to cry
- en -- to eat
- fa miteni, pa:ket -- to kill
- fefaim -- to work
- fen -- to climb
- fes, seuseu -- to walk
- fil, lo, tun -- to buy
- fus, soko -- to shoot
- ibis -- to spit
- imin -- to drink
- iŋ, sifol -- to swell
- ka:kes -- to swim
- kele -- to think
- kife -- to blow
- kis -- to sit
- kosigil -- to hold
- kukais -- to scratch
- la -- to come
- lut -- to fall
- ma:t, masun -- to sleep
- ma:tet -- to dig
- met -- to die, be dead
- nau -- to chew
- naufi -- to yawn
- nor -- to lie down
- nubil -- to dream
- nuŋau -- to bite
- of somaŋ -- to fly
- oŋ -- to hear
- paksi -- to hit
- par -- to see
- parfat -- to know, be knowledgeable
- pete -- to say
- pok -- to cut, hack
- pula -- to squeeze
- puri -- to steal
- rusai-iŋ -- to stab, pierce
- sian -- to split
- sok -- to tie up, fasten
- soke -- to fear
- sul, tut -- to cook
- sus -- to grow
- sus -- to suck
- ti -- to stand
- to [to] -- to live, be alive
- tu -- to burn