Abesabesi Grammar
Ikaram

Abesabesi

Other Names Akpes
Speakers 7,000
Status (EGIDS) 7 (Shifting)
Location Nigeria
ISO 639-3 ibe
Glottocode akpe1248

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Index

Language

Ikaram

Abbreviations

1 - First person
1H - First position high tone
2 - Second person
3 - Third person
ABSV - Active body state verb
ATR - Advanced tongue root
BEN - Beneficient
CFOC - Contrastive focus
COM - Comitative
COMP - Complementizer
CPOR - Comparator
DAT - Dative
DES - Habitual
EMPH - Emphasis
EPN - Habitual
FOC - Focus
FUT - future
HAB - Habitual
HUM - Human
IDP - Independent
LOG - Logophoric
LocH - Locative high tone
NEG - Negation
NFUT - Non-future
NHUM - Non-human
NP - Noun phrase
OBJ - Object
PAR - Partitive
PL - Plural
POSS - Possessive
PP - Preposition phrase
PRF - Perfect
PROG - Progressive
PST - Past
REL - Relativizer
S - Subject
SEQU - Sequential
SG - Singular
SIP - Sentence initial particle
SUP - Superlative
VH - Vowel harmony
VP - Verb phrase
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