Wampar
Facts
- Language: Wampar
- Alternate names: Laewamba, Laewomba, Laiwomba
- Language code: lbq
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Huon Gulf, Markham, Lower Markham
- Number of speakers: 5150
- Script:
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Introduction
Wampar is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Morobe Province, lower Markham and Wamped rivers.
Dialects
Lexical similarity: 50% with Adzera (See: Adzera?).
The Wampar Verb
Verblist
- [m]paŋampaŋ, riŋ -- to cry
- [m]pin -- to choose
- [m]pom -- to walk
- [m]pum, fir, fo, kiŋ, ū -- to swell
- [n] tsoŋ en, [n]tab, pof -- to grow
- [n]ta, i -- to lie down
- [n]taf en, mamar -- to breathe
- [n]tan, jare, pu, sarot -- to stab, pierce
- [n]tsi, faro, fentso -- to tie up, fasten
- bini, fug -- to squeeze
- boaŋar, poropoa -- to split
- buri -- to sit
- daro, tsetso -- to hunt
- denteŋ, its, joto -- to hit
- doŋ, naŋ -- to burn
- dzif -- to fly
- dzig en, rapun -- to turn
- dzin, rere -- to say
- dzofon -- to plant
- fane -- to laugh
- fani -- to shoot
- fāŋ -- to stand
- fariŋ, siŋis -- to count
- fid -- to spit
- fiririŋ, rid -- to flow
- foaŋ, tsaŋap -- to open, uncover
- fompob, īp -- to hide
- fuŋ, tsifi -- to blow
- gafagef -- to fear
- gafar -- to scratch
- gair, geaŋ, ār -- to bite
- gamu, moab -- to swim
- gofom -- to hold
- gom -- to work
- gru, wap -- to steal
- i -- to sleep
- its -- to kill
- jatin -- to know, be knowledgeable
- mar -- to die, be dead
- meap -- to climb
- moatsro, tum -- to fall
- no, tsup -- to vomit
- nom, num -- to drink
- ŋasaŋas, ār -- to chew
- paem, rab -- to buy
- parats -- to live, be alive
- poafo -- to dream
- ra, tae -- to cut, hack
- raf, sef, so -- to dig
- ramub -- to pound, beat
- rero -- to hear
- rots, sem -- to think
- ru, tsetseaŋ -- to cook
- sos, tsitsuf -- to suck
- tao -- to see
- toŋes -- to sniff, smell
- tum -- to throw
- wantaŋ, ān -- to eat
- yʌmaʔ -- to come