Ubir
Facts
- Language: Ubir
- Alternate names: Kubiri, Ubiri
- Language code: ubr
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage, North Papuan Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux linkage, Are-Taupota linkage, Are linkage
- Number of speakers: 2560
- Script:
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Introduction
Ubir is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Oro Province, Tufi district, Collingwood Bay coast, Kwagila river.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 27% with Miniafia dialect of Arifama-Miniafia (See: Arifama-Miniafia?) (most similar).
The Ubir Verb
Verblist
- |rurubi|n -- to choose
- |tiririn -- to flow
- |yaraten -- to breathe
- bai|bubuni|n -- to hide
- e|beber -- to fear
- e|bibib -- to walk
- e|bikafon -- to say
- e|biyab -- to count
- e|bobo -- to work
- e|bota|n -- to hold
- e|fefeu -- to fall
- e|fifisi|n -- to squeeze
- e|geg -- to climb
- e|gififi|n -- to chew
- e|ite|n -- to see
- e|jojor -- to burn
- e|momowab -- to yawn
- e|nat -- to come
- e|rarat -- to grow
- e|robob -- to fly
- e|sasagir -- to sew
- e|sasarai -- to dig
- e|seseser -- to laugh
- e|sisin -- to blow
- e|tatain -- to hear
- e|tataniu -- to plant
- e|tawar -- to stand
- e|toma|n -- to drink
- e|toma|n -- to suck
- e|toutou -- to cry
- e|wabir -- to pound, beat
- e|yeib -- to swim
- er -- to spit
- i|ani|n -- to eat
- i|aŋan -- to sniff, smell
- i|as|bun -- to kill
- i|bainau -- to steal
- i|bomomot -- to dream
- i|dau -- to swell
- i|en|rir -- to lie down
- i|enbubur -- to sleep
- i|gamsisir -- to scratch
- i|gi -- to bite
- i|kuseb -- to split
- i|mair -- to sit
- i|mout -- to vomit
- i|nos -- to think
- i|o -- to hunt
- i|oren -- to shoot
- i|rab -- to hit
- i|rabob -- to die, be dead
- i|rebe|n -- to throw
- i|rubo|n -- to open, uncover
- i|sagob -- to know, be knowledgeable
- i|sese -- to cut, hack
- i|sobibir -- to turn
- i|tab -- to cook
- i|tab -- to stab, pierce
- i|yos -- to tie up, fasten
- yawasi|n -- to live, be alive