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:
Noun class suffix Noun class semantics Example (with demonstrative a-) Gloss of example -bore round things, including balls, coins, coconuts, fruit, betelnut, cooking pots, garamut drums moo a-bore-ka' ‘that coconut’ -mai dogs, cats, horses, knives, forks, spoons, axes and other tools moska a-mai-ka' ‘that dog’ -möö people, birds, fish, small animals, insects, reptiles kokoree' a-möö-ka' ‘that chicken’ -visi houses, buildings, canoes, ships, cars pawa a-visi-ga' ‘that house’ -woro' pigs, cows pooro' a-woro-ka' ‘that pig’
References
External links Paradisec has Open Access collections that include Nagovisi materials, including the Arthur Cappell collections (AC1, AC2).