Oroha language
Oroha | |
---|---|
Region | South Malaita, Solomon Islands |
Ethnicity | Oroha people |
Native speakers | 38 (1999)[1] |
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)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Oroha". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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
- Materials on Oroha are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) held by Paradisec.
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