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Auka Gecheo
Auka may refer to: * Auka (company), a Norwegian financial technology firm * Waorani language, commonly known as Sabela, also pejoratively as Auka or Auca * Auka, a character in The Wheel on the School * Auka, a dialect of the Nakanai language Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Otherwise known as Nakonai, it also has dialects in the form of Losa, Bilek ... See also * Auke (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auka (company)
Auka is a Norwegian, VC-backed financial technology company. Its PSD2 compliant technology platform enables banks to issue white label mobile payments products to their private and merchant customers. Based in Oslo, the company currently employs 26 people under CEO Daniel Döderlein. History Founded in 2010, Auka was originally called mCASH and was the first mobile payments platform to launch in Norway. Since then, Norway and the Nordics have seen some of the highest rates of mobile payment adoption according to data from Visa. It received $6.87m in Series A funding round led by Northzone Ventures - which has also invested in Spotify, Klarna and iZettle - and including Entree Capital, an investor in Deliveroo. In 2016, Auka was named as the fastest-growing fintech company by Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA and was cited as one of the 16 hottest Nordic fintech startups by Business Insider. It was named European Mobile Payments Platform of the Year 2017 by CFI magazine, and was included i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waorani Language
The Waorani (Huaorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also ''Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela'' ; autonym: Wao Terero; pejorative: ''Auka, Auca'') is a vulnerable language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Ecuador. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru. Huaorani is considered endangered due to growing bilingualism in Quechua and Spanish and diminishing Huaorani usage among youth. Dialects Huaorani has three dialects: ''Tiguacuna (Tiwakuna), Tuei (Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi),'' and ''Shiripuno.'' Language relations Sabela is not known to be related to any other language. However, it forms part of Terrence Kaufman's Yawan proposal. Jolkesky (2016) also notes that there are lexical similarities with Yaruro. Phonology Huaorani distinguishes nasal vowels from oral ones. Syllable structure is (C)V, with frequent vowel clusters. The allophones of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wheel On The School
''The Wheel on the School'' is a novel by Meindert DeJong, a Dutch-born American, that won the 1955 Newbery Medal for children's literature and the 1957 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only .... The book was illustrated by noted author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Fred Inglis, in his book ''The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction'', writes that the book invokes the ancient pieties and the values of the old world and makes them "imaginable in the new." Plot summary Lina is one of six school children in the small fishing village of Shora. When she writes an essay for school that asks why there are no storks in their village, she sets all the others to wondering. Their teacher encourages the class to find out for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakanai Language
Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Otherwise known as Nakonai, it also has dialects in the form of Losa, Bileki, Vere, Ubae, and Maututu. The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by The name given to the Nakanai people by the indigenous people, before the Tolai name of Nakanai was adopted, was either Muku or Muu. Those were derogatory words, and in Nakanai mean "to screw up the nose in distaste," and "humming sound made by masked men," respectively. History Due to links between Nakanai and Eastern Oceanic languages, it is believed that its language family speakers arrived from the east of Papua New Guinea. New Britain had experienced regular contact and settlement from 1840 to 1883, but the lack of coverage and useful records of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |