Kemberano language

Kemberano is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia.[3]

Kemberano
Weriagar, Barau
Native toWest Papua, Indonesia
RegionBird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers
(2,500 including Dombano (possibly double counting) cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bzp
Glottologkemb1235[2]
Kemberano
Kemberano
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Coordinates: 2.24°S 132.99°E / -2.24; 132.99

Morphology

Kemberano nouns are required to have the following concord suffixes:[3]

  • i (masculine nouns)
  • o (feminine nouns)

Examples (from Berry and Berry 1987: 86):

pogi enat-i
pig one-M
‘one pig’
uroko enat-o
stone one-F
‘one stone’
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gollark: You can just write "ivermectin". I don't think there's a bot to delete references to it like there is for some other things.
gollark: 99% seems high. is this one of those "it reduces replication by horribly breaking the cell" things?
gollark: At current rates, the store of Greek letters will be depleted in about a year.

References

  1. Kemberano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kemberano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian (2018). "The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.


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