Sumeri language

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Sumeri
Tanah Merah
Region West Papua
Native speakers
unknown (500 cited 1978)[1]
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

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:

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

  1. Sumeri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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