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Luang

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Language: Luang
Alternate names:: Letri Lgona, Lgona, Literi Lagona
SIL-code: Ethnologue:lex
Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Timor-Babar, Southwest Maluku, Luang
Number of speakers: 18,000
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Introduction
- Dialects
The Luang Verb
- Sample Verbs

Introduction

Luang is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in Maluku Province. East of Timor island; entire Wetan island, across Wetan strait to northwest Babar island. .

Dialects

Lakor, Luang, Moa, Wetan (Wetang). Low comprehension of Leti (See: Leti). Lexical similarity: 89% with Leti (See: Leti).

The Luang Verb

Sample Verbs

to bite	ṇ'nihiə, kia, weta
to blow	aua, jera, porka, teni
to breathe	arna
to burn	ṇ'tunu, ola, tuni, tutna
to buy	weli
to chew	anāra, awti, nairi
to climb	aata
to come	ṇ'mai, mā
to cook	(maka)riai, nai
to count	awa
to cry	ṇ'kakəru, koa
to die, be dead	(mak)mati, ṇ'mati
to dig	kai
to dream	ṇ'miʔə, mia, wanni
to drink	'nɛmnu, emni
to eat	ana, na'ʔanə
to fall	ṇ'tujni
to fear	ruri
to flow	wai
to fly	ṇ'nemə, meela, nema
to grow	mori
to hear	na'tlinə, tlina
to hide	tajola
to hit	dūma, kaala, liwra, tai, wewla
to hold	kiuti
to hunt	ora
to kill	(mak)wenna, ṇ'wɛnnə, wuni
to know, be knowledgeable	'natu, (maka)tiari
to laugh	nam'mali
to lie down	kowa
to live, be alive	mori, oli
to open, uncover	ari(e), weera
to plant	oora
to pound, beat	tuuta, wai
to say	(maka)kota, iwra
to scratch	'matlə, kera, kira
to see	kpiei, nam'kekə
to sew	ōra
to shoot	rāpa, weta
to sit	katatna, mtatna, nam'tatnə, tati
to sleep	na'ninə, nina
to sniff, smell	umi
to spit	koa, krui, na'krui
to split	liira, waa, watwa
to squeeze	rāma
to stab, pierce	apa, kala, tetwerni, wai, weta
to stand	na'priri
to steal	(maka)mnaa
to suck	nīma
to swim	ə ṇ'nani, knani
to think	iwra, orta
to tie up, fasten	kei, wnuti, wuti
to turn	wali
to walk	laa-mai, na'laʔə
to vomit	mota, na'motə
to work	japi, kar(d)i(a)
to yawn

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