Tiang
Facts
- Language: Tiang
- Alternate names: Djaul
- Language code: tbj
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Meso Melanesian linkage, New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic linkage, Tungak-Nalik
- Number of speakers: 790
- Script:
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Introduction
Tiang is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in New Ireland Province, east Djaul island area.
The Tiang Verb
Verblist
- a meme -- to dream
- aiti -- to stand
- aitom -- to sit
- ak matai -- to sleep
- ato -- to live, be alive
- baira -- to dig
- bakbak -- to scratch
- bal uman -- to cook
- borau -- to laugh
- darap -- to suck
- darawai -- to say
- gan -- to eat
- ioio -- to fly
- ionlomo -- to breathe
- iram -- to drink
- kakas -- to swim
- kalanpang -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kalpak -- to turn
- kata, putak -- to cut, hack
- keket -- to bite
- ki aman, nan ki aman -- to come
- ki pan, panpan -- to walk
- kokot -- to count
- lak amat -- to kill
- lak -- to hit
- logoi -- to hear
- luluak -- to vomit
- mamau -- to yawn
- mat -- to die, be dead
- mati -- to lie down
- mosong -- to sniff, smell
- motot -- to fear
- pala -- to tie up, fasten
- papat -- to squeeze
- polok -- to grow
- pusen -- to throw
- ram, tan -- to burn
- rang -- to see
- saleng -- to hunt
- samsam -- to chew
- sapang -- to open, uncover
- selek -- to split
- sisa -- to swell
- somap -- to sew
- tangas -- to cry
- tau -- to plant
- te -- to stab, pierce
- toi -- to hold
- wan -- to steal
- wok -- to work