Are (Mukawa)

Are is a member of the Western Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 1,700 people on Cape Vogel in the north of Milne Bay Province in eastern Papua New Guinea.

Are is also known as Mukawa. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and there is a translation of the Bible in the language.

Are alphabet and pronunciation

C, f, h, j, q, x and z are also used, but only in loanwords and in foreign names.

Download an Are alphabet chart (Excel)

Information about the Are alphabet and pronunciation provided by Michael Peter Füstumum

Sample text

I Pusirinai God sapama badobu i wosis
Ba dobu i’ kupura kabakabana na kwenuna ; ba baidibara wakutapu kau naona ; ba God Kanumina okoayokoa kau naosi i tarakaubura :
Ba God i kau, I na rauyasega: ba i rauyasega.
Ba God yasegana i kitai ba i giare: ba God yasegana ba baidibara i’ baubauranis.
Ba God yasegana i orei Mara, ba baidibara i orei Pom. Ba rabisiai ba didibarai, mara kesana.

Source:The Holy Bible in Mukawa. 1925.

Translation (Genesis 1:1-5)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/GEN.1.KJV

Sample video in Are

Information about Are | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about Are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_(langue)
http://www.language-archives.org/language/mwc
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/mwc

Oceanic languages

Adzera, Ahamb, Äiwoo, Aneityum, Apma, Araki, Are, ’Auhelawa, Avava, Babatana, Bariai, Bola, Big Numbas, Buhutu, Bwaidoka, Caac, Cheke Holo, Dorig, Hiri Motu, Hiw, Hoava, Kakabai, Kaninuwa, Kokota, Kove, Kurti, Lakon, Lehali, Lenakel, Lewo, Lote, Lo-Toga, Löyöp, Manam, Marovo, Maskelynes, Mato, Mavea, Mono-Alu, Motu, Mussau-Emira, Mwotlap, Nafsan, Nahavaq, Namakura, Nanggu, Nduke, Neve‘ei, Neverver, Ninde, North Efate, Nume, Paamese, Papapana, Raga, Rotuman, Roviana, Sa, Sakao, Saliba, Siar, Sio, Ske, Sobei, Sursurunga, Tamambo, Tami, Teanu, Tigak, Tirax, Tolai, Touo, Ubir, Ughele, Uneapa, Vatlongos, Vitu, Vurës, Western Fijian, Yabem, Yapese

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 10.02.25

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