Dictionary App

 The Oroko Dictionary 1.0 is now available at Oroko Dictionary 1.1! 

Download it on your Android phone (must be version 4.01 or higher).

That will copy the dictionary file to your Android phone. 

• You will probably get a warning that your settings won't allow you to download it, so you have change your settings to allow it. 
• Then it may also say it is blocked (because it is an old version), and you will have to say "Install anyway".

What you need to know:

1) Oroko words are listed by their root or base form (without prefixes or suffixes). 

• Verbs are listed by their basic command form. For example, to dance is listed as "saka", not "ɗisaka". 
• Nouns are listed in their most basic spoken form, which includes their class marker. For example, dancer/dance is "mosaki" (mo- class marker + saka "dance" + -i noun ending).

 2) Dialects are indicated with the following codes:

      e          Ekombe
      m         Mbonge
      n          Ngolo
      i           Bima
      t           Batanga
      l           Balue
      u          Bakundu
      k          Bakoko
      o          Balondo Ba Nanga
      d          Balondo Ba Diko
 
      A          All
      W         West (n,t,i)
      S          South (m,e,l)

3) The dictionary is being published "As-Is" as of December 2020. It is a work-in-progress.

     Edits will continue to be made as additional data is collected and verified. 

• Suggestions, edits, and new words can be sent to OLDA via lisa.friesen@worldteam.org.