Orokaiva
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
[under construction]
Sources
[under construction]
Phonology
Larsen and Larsen (1977: 6, ibid.) give 12 consonants and 5 vowels for Orokaiva as follows:
| m | n | ŋ | |
| p | t | k | |
| b | d | dz | g |
| s | h |
| i | u | |
| e | o | |
| a |
…
Neither final consonants nor consonant clusters occur.
Pronouns
Larsen and Larsen (1978: 85) give Orokaiva pronouns in three case forms as follows:
| nominative | emphatic sbj. | possessive | |
| 1 sg. | na | na-ne-na | na-u |
| 2 sg. | u-mo | i-ne-na | n-o |
| 3 sg. near 1 sg. | e-mo | e-mi-na | e-mi-ta |
| 3 sg. near 2 sg. | a-mo | a-m-na | a-mi-ta |
| 3 sg. far | o-mo | o-mi-na | o-mi-ta |
| 1 pl. excl. | na-ŋgo ≈ da-go | na-ŋgo-na ≈ da- | na-ŋgo-ta ≈ da- |
| 1 pl. incl. | u-ŋgo-te | u-ŋgo-te-na | u-ŋgo-te-na-u |
| 2 pl. | u-ŋgo | u-ŋgo-na | u-ŋgo-ta |
| 3 pl. | e-nana | e-nana-na | e-nana-ta |
No dual forms are given as in other Oro languages.
Verbal morphology
[under construction]