Nagovisi
Sibe
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionBougainville Province
Native speakers
12,000 (2018)[1]
South Bougainville
  • Nasioiic
    • Nagovisi
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3nco
Glottologsibe1248
ELPSibe

Nagovisi, or Sibe, is a South Bougainville language spoken in the mountains of southern Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea.

Morphology

Nagovisi makes use of noun class suffixes, which are:[2]

Noun class suffixNoun class semanticsExample (with demonstrative a-)Gloss of example
-boreround things, including balls, coins, coconuts, fruit, betelnut, cooking pots, garamut drumsmoo a-bore-ka'‘that coconut’
-maidogs, cats, horses, knives, forks, spoons, axes and other toolsmoska a-mai-ka'‘that dog’
-mööpeople, birds, fish, small animals, insects, reptileskokoree' a-möö-ka'‘that chicken’
-visihouses, buildings, canoes, ships, carspawa a-visi-ga'‘that house’
-woro'pigs, cowspooro' a-woro-ka'‘that pig’

References

  1. Nagovisi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.


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