Wejewa
Facts
- Language: Wejewa
- Alternate names: Veveva, Waidjewa, Wajewa, West Sumbanese, Wewewa, Wewjewa, Weyewa
- Language code: wew
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata, Flores-Sumba-Hawu, Sumba-Hawu, Sumba, Wewewa-Laboya
- Number of speakers: 55000
- Vulnerability: risk [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
Wejewa is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in East Nusa Tenggara Province. West Sumba island, interior.
Dialects
Lauli (Loli), Tana Righu, Weyewa.
The Wejewa Verb
Verblist
- abbe
- abbuta
- abo
- ada
- adde
- adi
- adila
- agu
- akko
- akku
- aupa
- ausa
- urrata
- ba'a -- to swell
- ba'i -- to pound, beat
- beika -- to sleep
- beka (e pepet) -- to split
- bhou -- to sniff, smell
- buke -- to open, uncover
- dede -- to stand
- elena -- to turn
- enu -- to drink
- eta -- to see
- kaberuta -- to suck
- kabuni -- to hide
- kadauka -- to chew
- kako -- to walk
- kalola -- to hunt
- kanangganipi -- to dream
- kapeti, leto -- to throw
- kati -- to bite
- ka'u -- to scratch
- kedu -- to steal
- kète -- to tie up, fasten
- koda -- to dig
- kòkora, loro -- to flow
- kutu -- to sew
- lera -- to fly
- lòpu -- to cut, hack
- madita -- to laugh
- mai -- to come
- mandanta -- to fear
- mandi'i -- to sit
- mate -- to die, be dead
- mawaka -- to yawn
- moripa -- to live, be alive
- muta -- to vomit
- nga'a -- to eat
- ngani -- to swim
- ngau -- to breathe
- ngi'o -- to cry
- pàde -- to know, be knowledgeable
- paghili -- to work
- palu -- to hit
- pamate -- to kill
- pamula, todaka -- to plant
- pana -- to shoot
- paneghe -- to say
- pangèda -- to think
- pani'i -- to spit
- pati'i -- to cook
- pàzu -- to squeeze
- pede -- to choose
- pène -- to climb
- poghi -- to blow
- reke -- to count
- renge -- to hear
- tàwe -- to stab, pierce
- tère -- to hold
- tibu -- to grow
- tunu -- to burn
- waraka -- to fall
- wo'i -- to buy