Finally, some communities have recently been established in the capital Honiara, notably in the White River district.
[2] Note that Äiwoo distinguishes ä [æ] and â [ɑ,ɒ], both of which appear in the word kânongä 'I want'.
ikuwäikuwä‘I go’Similarly to intransitive verbs, A-verbs take a prefix to indicate an action; however, they combine with another noun or pronoun.
ikiläkenäteikiläke näte‘I’m chopping firewood.’Different from intransitive verbs, O-verbs take suffixes to say who is performing the action with the noun and pronoun.
nyenaaeângâkiläkinonyenaa eângâ kiläkino‘I chop down the tree.’There are no verbs that start with the sounds a, ä, â, or o.
The majority of verbs in Äiwoo begin with the phoneme /e/ followed by a vowel, as e.g. eâmoli ‘to look’.
simelänuumäsime lä nuumä‘a person from the village’Äiwoo demonstrative can cover several syntactic functions, but all share the property of distinguishing between a ‘here, close by’ and a ‘there, far away’ form.
'In the Äiwoo language, lu- and li- are closely related to the verb stem and are thus the oldest subject prefixes still used.
The other subject prefixes that follow after lu- and li- are newer, created other syntactic roles.
There are eight different nominalizing prefixes that are combined with a verb to create a noun which describes a person, thing, or place.