Wogeo
Facts
- Language: Wogeo
- Alternate names: Uageo
- Language code: woc
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Schouten linkage, Kairiru-Manam, Manamic linkage, Kis-Wogeo
- Number of speakers: 1620
- Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Wogeo is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in East Sepik Province, Vokeo and Koil islands.
Dialects
Related to Manam (See: Manam), Biem (See: Biem?), Sepa (See: Sepa?), and Medebur (See: Medebur?).
The Wogeo Verb
Verblist
- bʷarei -- to split
- dabʷaraki -- to hit
- fani -- to climb
- fani -- to shoot
- fila -- to say
- fisei -- to squeeze
- -geva -- to fear
- ini -- to drink
- i-tub -- to swell
- jelebou -- to throw
- kaba|kan -- to eat
- kalafolo -- to cut, hack
- kalakʷa -- to hunt
- karát -- to bite
- kel -- to dig
- kemʷaro -- to live, be alive
- kumʷaŋ -- to vomit
- kusu -- to spit
- kʷa, lako -- to walk
- la|unu -- to kill
- malevam -- to know, be knowledgeable
- maníf -- to work
- mʷaro -- to sit
- mʷawa -- to yawn
- nasi, tunu -- to cook
- ñor -- to flow
- ŋaraŋar -- to swim
- o-domei -- to see
- o-roŋo -- to hear
- o-yeno -- to lie down
- o-yeno -- to sleep
- oyóŋ -- to scratch
- roti -- to tie up, fasten
- rowo -- to fly
- sinai -- to hold
- soso|raki -- to suck
- susu, turei -- to sew
- tabúl -- to turn
- takawa -- to fall
- taŋ -- to cry
- tavál -- to die, be dead
- ti -- to stand
- tunu -- to burn
- tunup -- to sniff, smell
- unu -- to stab, pierce
- vanako -- to steal
- wayo -- to count
- wot -- to come
- yaburo -- to breathe
- yamayama -- to think
- yawe -- to laugh
- yuyureki -- to blow