Mandobo language

Mandobo, or Kaeti, is a Papuan language of Mandobo District in Boven Digoel Regency, Papua, Indonesia.

Mandobo
Dumut
Kaeti
Native toIndonesia
RegionMandobo District in Boven Digoel Regency, Papua
Native speakers
30,000 (2002)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Dialects
  • Bawah
  • Atas
  • Kokenop
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bwp  Mandobo Bawah
aax  Mandobo Atas
Glottologmand1473[2]

Evolution

Below are some Kaeti reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley (2012), drawn from McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970).[3][4]

proto-Trans-New GuineaKaeti
*maŋgat[a] ‘teeth, mouth’magot
*mVkVm ‘cheek’(a)moka (cf. Axu moxo pe)
*maŋgV ‘compact round object’(Axu mügo ‘egg’)
*amu ‘breast’am
*k(o,u)ma(n,ŋ)[V] ‘neck, nape’koman
*kumV- ‘die’kün (cf. Sawuy xom-, Wambon N. & Wambon S. kim-)
*mVkVm ‘cheek, jaw’(a)moka ‘cheek’
*na ‘1SG’nø(p)
*ni, *nu ‘1PL free pron.’no-güp
*na- ‘eat’(Wambon en-)
k(o,u)ma(n,ŋ)[V] ‘neck, nape’koman
*mb(i,u)t(i,u)C ‘fingernail’betit
*imbi ‘name’üp
*apa[pa]ta ‘butterfly’apap
*k(a,o)ndok[V] ‘foot, leg’kodok
*andu- ‘to cook’odu
*mb(i,u)t(i,u)C ‘fingernail’betit
*(ŋg,k)iti-maŋgV ‘eye’(?) kerop
*(mb,p)ututu- ‘to fly’(?) bere(na)
*kumut, *tumuk ‘thunder’komöt
*maŋgat[a] ‘teeth, mouth’magot
*ŋga ‘2SG’gu
*maŋgat[a] ‘teeth, mouth’magot
*maŋgV ‘compact round object’(Axu mügo ‘egg’)
*ka(nd,t)(e,i)kV ‘ear’kere(top)
*k(a,o)ndok[V] ‘foot, leg’kodok
*ka(nd,t)apu ‘skin’kotae
*kumbutu ‘wind’kiow
*kin(i,u)- ‘sleep’kinum
*kumV- ‘die’kün
*k(o,u)ma(n,ŋ)[V] ‘neck’koman
*kuya ‘cassowary’(Sawuy kuye)
*kV(mb,p)(i,u)t(i,u) ‘head’(?) xebia(an)
*mVkVm ‘cheek’(a)moka (cf. Axu moxo pe)
*kutV(mb,p)(a,u)[C] ‘long’(?) guru(op)
*ok[V] ‘water’ok
*k(a,o)ndok[V] ‘foot’kodok
gollark: Are you being !!IMPURE!!?
gollark: Thus, NO chances unless it's random-seeded by its arguments only (can chicken do that?).
gollark: You said they had to be pure.
gollark: ALL are gollarious.
gollark: gollariosity wins UTTERLY, as long as nobody else uses the source argument and causes recursion.

References

  1. Mandobo Bawah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mandobo Atas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mandobo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Pawley, Andrew (2012). Hammarström, Harald; van den Heuvel, Wilco (eds.). "How reconstructable is proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects". History, Contact and Classification of Papuan Languages. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea (Language & Linguistics in Melanesia Special Issue 2012: Part I): 88–164. hdl:1885/38602. ISSN 0023-1959.
  4. McElhanon, Kenneth A. AND C.L. Voorhoeve. 1970. The Trans–New Guinea Phylum: explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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