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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The word in Korafe (Papuan language, Binandere
family, Oro Province Papua New Guinea) for meat is <EM>oka. </EM>This is
also the generic word for 'fish'. The word for pig is <EM>fuka. Taima
fuka </EM>are wild pigs, and<EM> nati fuka </EM>'village pigs' are
domesticated To be hungry for meat is <EM>masaro e '
</EM>hunger.for.meat.of.either.land.animals.or.fish do'; e.g. <EM>Na
masaro erira. </EM>'1s hunger.for.meat it.does.PRES'.
The generic compound for food is <EM>oka bayau </EM>'meat food'. They call
dogs <EM>sino </EM>and birds <EM>rika. </EM>Chickens are called
<EM>kokora.</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In a related language Baruga (Papuan language,
Binandere family, Oro Province Papua New Guinea), they also use the word <EM>oka
</EM>for meat to eat. The generic word for food is the nominalised form of
'eat' <EM>undari. </EM> They call bush animals by the generic
term <EM>taima oka </EM>'bush animal' </FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>and fish <EM>uvu oka </EM>'water animal.' Wild pigs are included in
<EM>taima oka, </EM>but domesticated pigs are called <EM>naa oka </EM>'village
animal'. They have separate words for dogs <EM>nino </EM>and chickens
<EM>kokora. </EM>In fact, birds are clasified entirely separately from
animals as <EM>dii </EM>generically.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Both groups differentiate a number of animals
and birds for specific genus</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Cindi Farr</DIV>
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