Tugun
Facts
- Language: Tugun
- Alternate names: Mahuan, Tutunohan
- Language code: tzn
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timoric A, Northern Timoric A, Wetar, Perai-Tugun-Aputai
- Number of speakers: 1200
- Script:
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Introduction
Tugun is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Southwestern Maluku Province, Mahuan, Masapun, Tomliapat, Ilpokil, Kahailin, Ilway, and Arwala villages. Wetar island west of Barat Daya archipelago; southeast end of island.
Dialects
Arwala, Ilpokil, Kahailin Ilway, Mahuan, Masapua, Tomliapat. Lexical similarity: 92%–97% among dialects, 76% with Perai (See: Perai), 74% with Aputai (See: Aputai), 73% with Ili’uun (See: Ili’uun?), 52% with Galolen (See: Galolen?).
The Tugun Verb
Verblist
- 'gaga -- to bite
- 'gatal -- to scratch
- 'kua -- to cry
- 'liu -- to hear
- 'ma -- to come
- 'mali -- to laugh
- 'mate -- to die, be dead
- 'minu -- to drink
- 'mua -- to eat
- 'muta -- to vomit
- na'mi -- to dream
- 'nani -- to swim
- ni'loa -- to walk
- 'otu -- to kill
- 'piri -- to stand
- pita'pre -- to spit
- 'pole -- to fall
- 'sɛrɛk -- to know, be knowledgeable
- 'sopar -- to fly
- ti'pur -- to sleep
- 'tʃotʃo -- to see
- 'tur -- to sit