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Thus, the Rotokas alphabet consists of the eleven letters A E I G K O P R T U V.
The phonemes of Rotokas, in SAMPA notation, are as follows:
Bilabial Alveolar Velar Vl. stop p t k Vd. stop g Vd. fricative B Vl. fricative s Vd. tap 4Vowels A e i o u
In the orthography, v stands for SAMPA /B/, a voiced bilabial fricative, and r for SAMPA /4/.
Rotokas normally uses Subject Object Verb word-order, with adjectives and demonstrative pronouns preceding the nounA noun or noun substantive is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. Nouns are parts of speech and can be classified in different ways such as proper nouns (e. Janet") versus common nouns (e. girl"), or collec they modify, and most adverbAn adverb is a part of speech that normally serves to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, clauses, and sentences. Adverbs answer such questions as how when where in what way or how often In English, adverbs often have the suffix ly but so do many adjs following the main verb. It uses postpositionA postposition is a type of adposition, a grammatical particle that expresses some sort of relationship between a noun phrase (its object) and another part of the sentence; an adpositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb. Postpositions are adpos.