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
[under construction]
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
[under construction]
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
[under construction]
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