Gedaged

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Language: Gedaged
Alternate names:: Bel, Graged, Mitebog, Ragetta, Rio, Sek, Siar, Siar-Ragetta, Szeak-Bagili, Tiara
SIL-code: Ethnologue:gdd
Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Ngero-Vitiaz, Vitiaz, Bel, Nuclear Bel, Northern
Number of speakers: 6,950
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Introduction
The Gedaged Verb
- Sample Verbs

Introduction

Gedaged is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Madang Province; Sek, Yabob, Karkar, and Bagabag islands, Astrolabe bay, Madang coastal villages area. .

The Gedaged Verb

Sample Verbs

to bite	yaz\|é, zutí
to blow	fazé, fu, pu, wi
to breathe	uz, yaeŋ
to burn	memazí, nani, tun\|i
to buy	poalí
to chew	mam, ziŋiní
to choose	pilianí
to climb	dusá
to come	so
to cook	nai, nani
to count	sutí
to cry	ta, tiŋia
to cut, hack	guguzí, lutí, pilití, talé, tiziŋiní, tuzu
to die, be dead	mat
to dig	saze
to drink	milí
to eat	[y]aní
to fall	bal, du
to fear	fúfu, zez, zut
to flow	palú, yau
to fly	zou
to grow	tub
to hear	loŋ
to hide	kukúm, meyaním mumún
to hit	funí, tebalí
to hold	butuní
to hunt	bezaní
to kill	[su]fun\|í, tezepasí
to know, be knowledgeable	loŋ
to laugh	di
to lie down	[y]en
to live, be alive	bas
to open, uncover	fué
to plant	pae
to pound, beat	funí, tití, tut\|é
to say	bol, pai
to scratch	kekaz\|é
to see	nasí
to sew	wae, zikí
to shoot	pan\|é
to sit	matál
to sleep	doz
to spit	yasú, yusuní
to split	falé, tezepalé
to squeeze	bule, pipí
to stab, pierce	belái, sae, tizái
to stand	tiúz
to suck	musí
to swell	didí
to swim	log
to think	kánkan
to tie up, fasten	pau, puzí, sasé
to turn	bozozoaní
to walk	la, toz
to vomit	lu
to work	uzát
to yawn

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