Lamogai
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- Language: Lamogai
- Alternate names:: Akiuru, Mulakaino
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:lmg
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Ngero-Vitiaz, Vitiaz, Southwest New Britain, Bibling
- Number of speakers: 3,650
- Script:
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Introduction
Lamogai is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in West New Britain Province, northwest interior, 2 regions on south coast. .
Dialects
Ibanga (Ivanga), Lomogai, Musen, Paret, Pulie-Rauto (Rauto, Roto).
The Lamogai Verb
Sample Verbs
to bite | ŋené |
to blow | ip |
to breathe | wiŋós |
to burn | kluk |
to buy | klié |
to chew | nes |
to choose | loloé |
to climb | pané |
to come | mo |
to cook | kamlú |
to count | titík |
to cry | gr̃ipín |
to cut, hack | ir̃ipé |
to die, be dead | ur̃én |
to dig | yasé |
to dream | aninóm |
to drink | in |
to eat | ŋen |
to fall | noplók |
to fear | lim |
to flow | soŋ |
to fly | kly |
to grow | níni |
to hear | b|r̃oŋón |
to hide | kukóp |
to hit | mluké |
to hold | gišyé |
to hunt | sau |
to kill | paḡamé |
to know, be knowledgeable | sáβe |
to laugh | dewél |
to lie down | kotók |
to live, be alive | ma |
to open, uncover | kláse |
to plant | wasék |
to pound, beat | br̃até |
to say | kanés |
to scratch | ne |
to see | r̃ik |
to sew | sisir̃é |
to shoot | ir̃ié |
to sit | kaimá |
to sleep | makádu |
to sniff, smell | kuné |
to spit | démsok |
to split | wak |
to squeeze | por̃é |
to stab, pierce | gr̃aié |
to stand | naŋkar̃tír̃ |
to steal | ḡamé |
to suck | ínusú |
to swell | soŋ |
to swim | βur̃iá |
to think | sáβe |
to throw | ir̃ié |
to tie up, fasten | powé |
to turn | nekék |
to walk | nes |
to vomit | buḡiók |
to work | deyáge |
to yawn | bakáp |