Bori is a Tani language of India. Bori is spoken in Payum Circle, West Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh (Megu 1988).
Bori is spoken by the Bori, an indigenous tribal people of India.
Post (2013)Mark W. Post. 2013. 'The defoliation of the Tani Stammbaum: A positive-minded exercise in contact linguistics.' Paper presented at the 19th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Australian National University, Sep. 9-10. and Ethnologue classify Karko as a variety of Bori.
Phonology Megu (1988) defines the consonant and vowel inventories as follows: +Consonants Labial Dental/Alveolar Palatal Velar/GlottalPlosiveVoiceless Voiced Fricative Nasal Trill~ Approximant Lateral
+Vowels Front Central Back Close Close-mid Open-mid Open ,
Grammar Plurality is expressed by adding the auxiliary after the noun. Nouns have no inherent gender, but animals of a specific sex can be marked by two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. The masculine is marked by the suffix and the feminine is marked by the suffix. The word order is SOV.
Four cases are marked by a suffix on the noun. These are the locative, accusative, instrumental, and dative. The habitual aspect is marked by and the continuous aspect is marked by . and - are imperative suffixes. can also be used for the interrogative.
Personal pronouns denote three persons and two numbers. +PersonSingularPlural1 2 3
References
Sources Megu, Arak. 1993. The Karkos and Their Language. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh.