Sarmi–Jayapura languages

The Sarmi-Jayapura Bay languages consist of half a dozen languages spoken on the northern coast of Papua province of Indonesia:[2]

Sobei, Bonggo, Tarpia (Sarmi), Kayupulau, Ormu, Tobati (Jayapura Bay)
Sarmi-Jayapura
Sarmi-Jayapura Bay
Geographic
distribution		northern Papua
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologsarm1241[1]

Ross (1988) had considered Sarmi and Jayapura Bay (Kayapulau, Orma and Tobati) to be separate but related groups. Ross (1988) listed several additional Sarmi languages:

Anus (Korur) and Podena, Liki and Wakde (close to Sobei), Masimasi, Kaptiau, and Yamna.

The inclusion of a supposed Yarsun language[3] appears to be due to confusion of language names with island names. No such language is attested; the island is located between that of the Anus and Podena languages, and all three islands are reported to speak dialects of a single language according to the first source to mention it.[4]

With the exception of certain Micronesian languages, the Sarmi-Jayapura languages have the westernmost distribution out of all Oceanic languages.[5]

Sound correspondences

Grace (1971:34-37) published a table of sound correspondences for the Sarmi languages, from which the following forms are gleaned. The languages are arranged from west to east.

Proto-Oceanic Sobei Wakde Masimasi Anus Bonggo Tarpia
*api 'fire' yafu yafu yeif af yap
*isuŋ 'nose' su- hiu- si- su- sua- siwi-
*susu 'breast' sisu- ihi- su- su-
*ranum 'water' rani ranu ranu dein dan dan
*raun 'leaf' rau rau rou dau dau dau
*mapine 'woman' mefne mafani mofin mofin mupin
*manuk 'bird' maninetio mani mani mein man man
*pulu 'feather' fido firu firo fru puru
*puaq 'fruit' afo afu afo fowo fukwa pawa
*paqoRu 'new' fefou afafu fofou fieu pipiu
*patu 'stone' fati fati fati feit fiat payaʔ
*pat 'four' fau fau fau fau pau
*tolu 'three' tou tou tour tou tor tor
*taliŋa 'ear' tidi- tiri- tira- terne- təren- tarni-
*taŋis 'cry' -tan -tan -tan -tein tənian -nsin
*taumataq 'person' temto tamturi timot tumuat tamuʔ
*kutu 'louse' kute witi kut kut kuʔ
*kulit 'skin' wadi wari wiri keri kru kuru
*qone 'sand' wane wane wane wen wen wen
*qasawa 'spouse' eson ahun sawe sua tawa
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References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sarmi–Jayapura Bay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
  3. Yarsun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  4. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  5. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2019). "Glottolog". 3.4. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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