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A lot of the wording you have here is probably not acceptable for wikipedia (who knows, it might get accepted). I suggest you read the example articles I gave you more carefully to have a guide for your writing style. For example the work order sentence should be something like: the language has predominantly Subject-Object-Verb word order.... or something like that.

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Korafe or could also be called Kailikaili, Kaire, Korafe, Korafi, Korape,and Kwarafe is a language spoken in the Oro Province more specifically in the Tufi District, and Cape Nelson Headlands.

Speakers
For the people that lived of the Korafe language lived with three main principles:


 * 1) Self sustaining economy
 * 2) Responsibilities and such go beyond one generation and can be passed down to ones children and so on an so forth
 * 3) Belief in magic powers as well as a spirit world that are involved in a good well being for the community

The Korafe people are a people that live in a mainly tribal manner as they wear very outlandish headgear as well as many other types of jewelry not commonly found anywhere else really.

Stress

 * Stress on syllables comes on different syllables depending on the amount of syllables
 * The accent mark also helps to show the location of said syllable that is being stressed
 * The first syllable is stressed when the word itself has 2 syllables
 * Example: gháka ‘canoe’  jáinjain ‘chirp of a cricket’
 * The second syllable is stressed when the word itself has more than 2 syllables
 * Example: genémbo ‘man’, gegénembo ‘men’, tatárigho ‘echo’, ufóngufongu ‘iguana’
 * Also the first syllable is stressed when it uses the syllable pattern (C)VV(V)

Grammar
The Korafe language has primarily SOV or Subject-Object-Verb word order. An example of the use of Subject-Object-Verb word order is shown below:

ere-gov-ena

REP-plant.vs1-PRES.1S.FN

‘I am planting’

Demonstratives

 * demonstratives: e-this, a- that, o- that (away from speaker)

Stems and Verbs
For stem verbs I the structure of that verb would be said root word followed by -e, -i, or -u.

Example:

sé             íti                 gémbu

say.I         cook.I           write.I

Stem II verbs are normally somewhat close to Stem I verbs but with a few changes whether it be a vowel shift,reduplication etc. Normally, removes one of the vowels which are most likely -u, or -i

Example:

si        itutu       gefu

say.II  cook.II    write.II

Verbs follow serial verb construction, or basically using more than 1 verb next to each other in a clause.

Example:

si-r-ur-ono s                                                  gefu-sira

ay .II-EPEN-IPF-SIM.lR. l S.DS                   write.II-DP.3S.FN

'while I will be speaking'                               'he wrote'

Positive Deverbals
When creating a positive deverbal it is a root word followed by the suffix -ari.

Example:

s-ari                                it-ari                                   gemb-ari

say.I-DvB                         cook.l-DVB                       write. I-DVB

'to speak/speaking'         'to cook/cooking'                 'to write/writing'

Negative Deverbals
Negative versions of Positive Deverbals are the same structurally but just has a different suffix which for negatives is -ae

Example:

s-ae                     it-ae                       gemb-ae

say.l-not.do         cook.l-not.do         write.l-not.do

'not saying'          'not cooking'          'not writing'

Verb Formation
In Korafe only one heavy syllable is allowed (vv in the Rhyme)

Almost all imperfective verbs will use the -ere rules

-ere replacement rules

 * 1) When the verb is a stem II verb and also follows any of the following order V, CV, VCV, CVCV, VNCV, CVNCV, then the -ere will be put right before the stem word

Example:

ere-gefu                     ere-bundi                ere-oji

IPF-write.TI              IPF-bind.II               IPF -butcher.I1

'be writing'                  'be binding'             'be butchering'

2. Verb is stem two but have longer configurations such as VCVCV, CVCVCV, VNCVCV,CYNCVCV. In this case the -ere rule applies by having the root word followed by -ere.

Example:

teteru-ere-u t                           undudu-ere-u

eter-er-u                                    undud-er-u

enter.II-IPF-do.lI.IMP                 nurture. 11-IPF -do.II'! MP

'be entering'                                be nurturing'