Oro language
Appearance
Nsíŋ Oro | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Akwa Ibom State |
Native speakers | (75,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | orx |
Glottolog | oroo1241 |
Oro (Oron) is a Lower Cross River language of Nigeria.
The phonemes of Oron comprise seven oral vowels í,
The Oron language does not possess any affixes or verb forms to express passive actions; 'he is received' becomes 'they receive him'. Finally, it may be noted that the relative order of the simple Oron sentence is subject-verb-object.[2]
References
- ^ Nsíŋ Oro at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Simmons, Donald C. (July 1956). "Oron Verb Morphology". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 26 (3): 250–264. doi:10.2307/1156343. JSTOR 1156343. S2CID 143251357.