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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:

m n
p t k
b d
w j  gᶫ
i u
ɛ ɔ
a

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Pronouns

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

   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:

   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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