Tigak
Facts
- Language: Tigak
- Alternate names: Omo
- Language code: tgc
- 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: 6000
- Script:
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Introduction
Tigak is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Northern New Ireland Province, Kavieng district, west Djaul island.
Dialects
Central Tigak, Island Tigak, South Tigak, West Tigak.
The Tigak Verb
Verblist
- aisok -- to work
- akaliman -- to count
- alaklagai -- to burn
- ima, saŋ -- to come
- inum -- to drink
- irim, sinuk -- to sit
- ivisi -- to spit
- kagat -- to bite
- kakapaŋ, kila[i] -- to know, be knowledgeable
- kakas -- to swim
- kalum, tarai -- to see
- kapis -- to plant
- kat, pipis -- to tie up, fasten
- koŋ, ton -- to hold
- koto, putuk -- to cut, hack
- loŋok, pa|loŋ-an-i -- to hear
- los -- to laugh
- luak -- to breathe
- mali -- to blow
- mat -- to die, be dead
- matai -- to sleep
- matuk -- to lie down
- mis -- to suck
- mumug-i -- to shoot
- musaŋ-i -- to sniff, smell
- nol -- to think
- ŋan -- to eat
- ŋeak -- to cry
- pasal -- to walk
- pisiŋ -- to say
- poko, puka -- to fall
- polok -- to grow
- potok-i -- to split
- pul -- to buy
- punuk -- to kill
- rot-i -- to stab, pierce
- salik -- to flow
- taŋintol -- to live, be alive
- tat -- to fly
- tuk -- to stand
- tun -- to cook
- ulpuki -- to turn
- viakon -- to fear
- vis -- to hit