Mor language (Papuan)
Mor is a nearly extinct Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It is spoken along the Budidi River and the Bomberai River on the Bomberai Peninsula.[3]
| Mor | |
|---|---|
| Region | Fakfak Regency, West Papua |
Native speakers | 30 (2012)[1] 70 semi-speakers (2012) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | moq |
| Glottolog | morb1239[2] |
 Map: The Mor language of New Guinea
The Mor language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Classification
It may form a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate.[4]. However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2 ng pronouns na- and a-:
sg pl 1 na-ya ne-a 2 a-ya omase 3 mena morimene
Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf.[5]
Nouns
Nominal inflection for number in Mor is limited to only certain animate nouns, such as mor ‘man’ and mor-ir ‘men’. Other nouns do not inflect for number, such as is ‘bird/birds’.[3]:97
gollark: Not really.
gollark: That was thought impossible!
gollark: You're running a currency on top of krist, or...?
gollark: In any case, other people could probably help somehow.
gollark: OR DOES HE?
References
- Mor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mor (Bomberai Peninsula)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". 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. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- Palmer, Bill (2018). "Language families of the New Guinea Area". 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. 1–20. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- New Guinea World, Mor
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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