Sumeri language
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Sumeri | |
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Tanah Merah | |
Region | West Papua |
Native speakers
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unknown (500 cited 1978)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tcm |
Glottolog | tana1288 [2] |
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Map: The Sumeri language of New Guinea
The Sumeri language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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The Sumeri language, Sumerine, one of two Papuan languages known as Tanah Merah, is spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula by perhaps a thousand people. It forms an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). It has also been linked to the Mairasi languages, but those do not share the TNG pronouns of Sumeri. The pronouns are:
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sg pl 1ex na-fea kiria 1in kigokomaka 2 ka-fea ki-fia
There are no 3rd-person personal pronouns, only demonstratives. The pronouns appear to reflect pTNG *na 1sg, *ga 2sg, and *gi 2pl.
See also
References
- ↑ Sumeri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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