Torau
Facts
- Language: Torau
- Alternate names: Rorovana
- Language code: ttu
- 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, Northwest Solomonic, Mono-Uruavan
- Number of speakers: 600
- Script:
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Introduction
Torau is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Bougainville Province, southeast coast, north of Kieta.
The Torau Verb
Verblist
- ado-a -- to pound, beat
- a-mate-a -- to kill
- aniani -- to eat
- aripukaina -- to tie up, fasten
- ataesalato -- to know, be knowledgeable
- atoato -- to say
- atuna -- to hit
- bebea -- to open, uncover
- eiko -- to lie down
- gau, tatunu -- to burn
- goau -- to spit
- gomoa -- to hold
- io ma mate -- to die, be dead
- kabkab -- to sew
- kaisi-a -- to buy
- karatia -- to bite
- kokoa, loa -- to drink
- kokonoro -- to cook
- kosia -- to cut, hack
- lelea -- to laugh
- ma bola -- to hear
- ma lao, pae sobi -- to walk
- ma mausu -- to sleep
- ma tanisi -- to cry
- ma toria -- to see
- mama -- to chew
- mamaha -- to yawn
- na toala -- to live, be alive
- name -- to breathe
- obakia -- to shoot
- olaru -- to fear
- onouia -- to think
- opi -- to vomit
- oraora -- to sniff, smell
- osomaina -- to throw
- pae lauma -- to come
- pae su -- to swim
- paotaina -- to plant
- puia -- to blow
- ro -- to fly
- sioa -- to steal
- sodia -- to count
- tabiru -- to turn
- tatada -- to dream
- tegesesalato -- to stand
- toa -- to grow
- totobe -- to dig
- tuousalato -- to sit
- uaka -- to work
- ukau -- to fall