====== Ekagi ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
Ekagi (Ekari,) also known as Kapauku, is spoken by 35,000 people (1960) living around the Paniai (Wissel) lakes in the Nassau mountains of Indonesia's Papua province (Doble 1960: v.)

===== Sources =====
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Le Roux (1948: 896-967) 54 comparative terms for Ekari and …

Drabbe (1949: 434-444) 367 comparative terms for Ekari

Drabbe (1952) grammar of Ekagi (unobtained)

Doble (1960) dictionary of Kapauku

Doble (1962) grammar of Kapauku (unobtained)

Doble (1987) grammar of Ekari

Voorhoeve (1975: 104) 40 comparative terms for Ekagi after Doble

Galis (1955) … comparative terms for Ekari

Steltenpool (1969) dictionary of Ekagi (unobtained)

Larson and Larson (1972: 90-92) 66 comparative terms for Ekagi of the Paniai Lake area drawn from Doble (1960)

Larson (1977) …

Peckham (1991: 167-173) 203 comparative terms for Yabi

… (1996) phonology of Ekagi

Althur, Yambise, Dharmojo and Supardi (2001) Ekagi morphology

===== Phonology =====
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Doble (1960: v) gives 11 consonants and 5 vowels for Kapauku as follows:

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|  m  |  n  |     |       |
|  p  |  t  |     |   k   |
|  b  |  d  |     |       |
|  w  |     |  j  |   gᶫ  |


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|  i  |     |  u  |
|  ɛ  |     |  ɔ  |
|     |  a  |     |

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===== Pronouns =====
Doble (1987: 85) gives Ekari free pronouns in two case forms as follows:

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|      | nominative| possessive|
| 1 sg.| ani       | ani-ja    |
| 2 sg.| aki       | aki-a     |
| 3 sg.| ɔkai      | ɔkai-ja   |
| 1 pl.| ini:      | ini:-ja   |
| 2 pl.| iki:      | iki:-ja   |
| 3 pl.| ɔkɛi      | ɔkɛja     |
| 1 dl.| inai      | inai-ja   |
| 2 dl.| ikai      | ikai-ja   |
| 3 dl.| ɔkɛjai    | ɔkɛjai-ja |

Bound forms (pp. 82-83) are given as follows, with Paniai and Tigi-Kamuu variants designated as (P) and (T) respectively. Duals are not distinguished from plurals:

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|      | object           | object| object    | benefactive| benefactive      |
|      | general          | “give”| “hit/kill”| exclusive  | inclusive        |
| 1 sg.| na-              | na-   | na-       | na:-       | na:-             |
| 2 sg.| ka-              | ka-   | ka-       | ka:-       | ka:-             |
| 3 sg.| ɛ-               | mɛ-   | wa-       | ja-        | ɔ:-              |
| 1 pl.| nɛ- (P) ≈ ni- (T)| ni-   | ni-       | nija-      | nɛ- (P) ≈ ni- (T)|
| 2 pl.| kɛ- (P) ≈ ki- (T)| ki-   | ki-       | kija-      | kɛ- (P) ≈ ki- (T)|
| 3 pl.| ɛ-               | mɛ-   | wa-       | ja-        | ɔ:-              |

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===== Verbal morphology =====
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