Toura
Facts
- Language: Toura
- Alternate names: Doura
- Language code: don
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Peripheral Papuan Tip linkage, Central Papuan Oceanic, West Central Papuan linkage, Nuclear West Central Papuan linkage
- Number of speakers: 1800
- Script:
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Introduction
Toura is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Central Province, Galley Reach area.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 57% with Lala (See: Lala), 54% with Motu (See: Motu).
The Toura Verb
Verblist
- a taravari -- to walk
- abeha'u -- to say
- ahearo -- to scratch
- ahebiro -- to turn
- aikaiko -- to see
- ama -- to come
- amu'okuri -- to sew
- ani -- to eat
- apikaia -- to hold
- 'apua -- to bite
- ekoaku -- to blow
- eluvua -- to open, uncover
- enivinivi -- to dream
- here -- to hit
- ini -- to stand
- inu -- to drink
- ipiti -- to shoot
- kani -- to cry
- laheto -- to fear
- lolo -- to swell
- make -- to die, be dead
- mamai -- to laugh
- mapuape -- to burn
- mata'a -- to sniff, smell
- mauri -- to live, be alive
- miati -- to sit
- munai -- to sleep
- nahu -- to swim
- napati -- to tie up, fasten
- natu -- to cook
- oko -- to kill
- rahuru -- to throw
- roho -- to fly
- 'ura -- to vomit
- waha'e -- to hear