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= Äiwoo Language = Äiwoo is an Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language spoken in the Santa Cruz islands and the Reef islands both of which are apart of the Temotu province. Smaller islands make up the Reef islands which consist of Fenualoa, Lomlom, Nibanga Nede, and Nibanga Temaa. Äiwoo can also be called Ayiwo, Aïwo, Gnivo, Lomlom, Naaude, Nifilole, Nivo, Reef Islands, and Reefs.

Speakers
Äiwoo has roughly about 8,400 native speakers with roughly 5,000-6,000 of its people living on the Reef islands and the rest living on the Santa Cruz islands.

Phonology
Definition: Relationship of sound in a language.

Sounds
Sounds in Äiwoo pretaining to the english letter a can be either ä or â which depends on what is combined with the letters.


 * Example: kânongä ‘I want’

Syntax
Definition: A combination of words or phrases to formulate a proper sentence in a language.

Word Order
Unlike the English language where people formulate sentences using subject, verb, object, in the Äiwoo language, their word order is object, verb, and subject.


 * Example: In English, 'I like football'


 * Example: In Äiwoo, 'football like I'

Nouns
Just like in the english language, in Äiwoo nouns are used to describe a person, place or thing.

Nouns in Äiwoo can be paired with a suffix to show a possessive case.


 * Example: tumo ‘my father’

Nouns in Äiwoo can follow a possessive particle.


 * Example: kuli nou ‘my dog’

Bound Nouns
One type of subgroup of a noun are called bound nouns. Bound nouns act like a noun, however, cannot be used by itself unless paired with a verb, possessive case, or another noun.

Local Nouns
One other type of subgroup of a nouns are called local nouns. Local nouns are not like a noun, however, can be used to indicate a location without the preposition.


 * Example: ngä: ikuwä ngââgu ‘I’m going to the bush’

Verbs
Verbs in Äiwoo are divided into three classes

Intransitive Verbs
Combine with only one noun or pronoun to make a sentence but also take a prefix to indicate a action.


 * Example: ikuwä ‘I go’

A-Verbs
Similarly to intransitive verbs, A-verbs take a prefix to indicate a action, however, combine with another noun or pronoun.


 * Example: ikiläke näte ‘I’m chopping firewood’

O-Verbs
Differently to intransitive verbs, O-verbs takes suffixes to say who is performing the action with the noun and pronoun.


 * Example: nyenaa eângâ kiläkino ‘I chop down the tree’

Different Verbs
Unlike the english language where there's verbs that begin with the vowel letter a and o, in Äiwoo, verbs that start with the a, ä, â, or o do not exist. On the other hand, majority of the verbs in Äiwoo, do begin with the letter e following by a vowel.


 * Example: eâmoli ‘to look’

Special Verbs
For verbs beginning with the letter v and w, they are define as causative verbs. Causative verbs are made by combining a causative prefix to the letters v and w. In the Äiwoo language, the two causative prefixes are 'wâ' and 'vä'


 * Example: wânubo ‘kill’

Grammar
Prepositions are words that are place in the beginning of a word that describes a person, place or thing. In the Äiwoo language, Ngä and go are two important prepositions used.


 * Example: Ngä referring to 'in, at, on, to, from'
 * Example: Go referring to 'for, with, because of'

Pronouns
Similarly to Pronouns in the English language, Pronouns in Äiwoo are words that are replaced with nouns.


 * Example: iu ‘I’

Possessive Markers
Possessive markers are used in consecutively after a noun to show a person, place or thing.


 * Example: nenu numo ‘my coconut’

Relational Markers
Similarly to Possessive markers, Relational markers are used to show relations between a noun something else.


 * Example: sime lä nuumä ‘a person from the village’

Demonstratives
In Äiwoo, forms classified as demonstrative several syntactic functions, but share the property of distinguishing between a ‘here, close by’ and a ‘there, far away’ form.

Conjunctions
Similarly to the English language, Conjunctions are used to link together phrases or clauses.


 * Example: eä ‘and’

Quantifiers
Quantifiers are words that are used to show quantity in a language.


 * Example: du ‘all’

Interjections
Interjections are adjectives that are used by themselves without the need of other descriptives words.


 * Example: sikäi ‘Oh!

Religion
Within the Solomon Islands, many of the people follow the religion of Christian.

Writing
The writing system used in Äiwoo is Latin script.

Language
Within the Solomon islands and Reef islands, Äiwoo is the primary language spoken by all of its people with the addition of a few people also speaking English. Within the schooling system, due to Orthography not being adopted as of yet, resulting in a decline of people who can read, writing and grammar, on the other hand, is being taught in Primary and secondary school.

Morphology
Definition: The study of words and how words are similar.

Intransitive Subject Forms
In the Äiwoo language, lu- and li- are closely related to the verb stem resulting in being some of the oldest subject prefixes still used. Thus, the other subject prefixes that follow after lu- and li- are new subject prefixes that made from other syntactic roles. However, one exclusion to the list of new subject prefixes are with i.

Transitive Subject Forms
In the Äiwoo language, the transitive subject forms are suffixed which means that a morpheme is added to the end of a word. In addition, transitive subject forms have possessive like forms. in

Transitivity
In the Äiwoo, three different verbal clauses are utilized which consists of intransitive, transitive, and semitransitive. The main difference between all three verbal clauses is that intransitive concern only one person while transitive and semitransitive concern more than one person.

Intransitive Clauses
In the oceanic language, intransitive clauses are commonly utilized which follow the subject and verb format.

Transitive Clauses
For transitive clauses, how phrases are structured follow the order of object, verb, and subject.

Semitransitive Clauses
For semitransitive clauses, it utilizes intranistive verbs with subject and object resulting in a structured phrase order of subject, verb, and object.

Nominalizing Prefixes
In the Äiwoo language, there are eight different nominalizing prefixes that are combined with a verb to create a noun which describes a person, thing, or place.


 * mi 'one who/which'
 * gi 'human male'
 * si 'human female'
 * me 'human'
 * pe 'human collective'
 * ñe 'place'
 * de 'thing, instrument'
 * ñi 'way, manner'

Class Prefixes
In the Äiwoo language, class prefixes are combined with a noun or verb.

Gender Marking Prefixes
In the Äiwoo language, gender marking prefixes date back to the beginning of the Oceanic orgin.

To create a gender marking prefix, gi and si from the nominalizing prefixes are combined with nouns.