mokykon

Kari'na

Etymology

From moky (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -kon (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [moːkɨkõ]

Pronoun

mókykon

1. (Venezuela) the animate plural distal demonstrative pronoun; those yonder, those over there

   Synonym: (Suriname) mòkan

Inflection

Kari'na demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun		animate pronoun
		singular	plural	singular	plural
proximal	visible	ero	erokon	mose	mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV
	invisible	eny	enykon
medial		—	—	mòko	mòkaro(n)
distal	visible	moro	morokon	moky	mòkan, mókykonV
	invisible	mony	monykon
anaphoric		iro	irokon	inoro	inaro(n), inorokonV
V. Venezuelan dialect.

References

• Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña‎^[1], Maracaibo, page 53
• Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275