Nor language
Murik a.k.a. Nor is a Lower Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Murik ward (3.794976°S 143.998682°E) of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, which is located around a large coastal lagoon.[3][4]
| Murik | |
|---|---|
| Nor | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2000)[1] |
Ramu–Lower Sepik
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mtf |
| Glottolog | muri1260[2] |
| Coordinates: 3.794976°S 143.998682°E | |
Pronouns
Murik independent pronouns are:[5]
singular dual paucal plural 1 ma ga-i ag-i e<*a+i 2 mi ga-u ag-u o<*a+u 3 mən məndəb məŋgə mwa
Nouns
Murik nouns are inflected for four numbers.[6]:897
‘person’ ‘house’ singular nor iran dual normbo irambo paucal norgə iramoara plural normot iranmot
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References
- Murik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Murik (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". 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. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The morphosyntactic typology of Papuan languages". 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. 895–938. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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