Oroha language

Oroha
Region	South Malaita, Solomon Islands
Ethnicity	Oroha people
Native speakers	38 (1999)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic SE Solomonic Malaita – San Cristobal Malaita Southern Oroha
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ora`
Glottolog	`oroh1237`^[2]

Oroha (also known as Oraha and Mara Ma-Siki) is an endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands.

Numerals

Number	Normal numbers	Ordinal numbers
1	ʻeta	ʻetana
2	rua	ruana
3	ʻooru	ʻooruna
4	hai	haina
5	nima	nimana
6	ʻoono	ʻoonona
7	hiu	hiuna
8	waru	waruna
9	siwa	siwana
10	tanaharu	tanaharuʻana

References

↑ Oroha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Oroha". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Ivens, W. G. (1927). "A Study of the Oroha Language, Mala, Solomon Islands". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 4 (3): 587–610. doi:10.1017/s0041977x00102988.

External links

OrohaLanguage.org - an online, in-progress grammar of Oroha
Online version of the 1927 Ivens "A Study of the Oroha Language" article