Sounds /e, o/ are heard as [ɛ, ɔ] when in stressed syllables, or when the nucleus of the following syllable is /a/ or /o/.
Writing system
Sinaugoro alphabet
a
b
d
e
f
g
ḡ
ḡw
i
k
kw
l
m
n
o
r
s
t
u
v
Grammar
Sinaugoro is an agglutinative language with ergative alignment and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order.
Number is marked explicitly on the verb and freely within the noun phrase, but is not marked on the noun itself.
A morphological distinction is made in Sinaugoro between the possession of alienable and inalienable nouns, and then between the alienable possession of edible and inedible objects.
Verbal indexing of person and number in Sinaugoro makes freestanding personal pronouns optional. These are given below, displaying a distinction between inclusive and exclusive.
