Suarmin language

Suarmin
	Asaba
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sandaun Province
Native speakers	140 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sepik Leonhard Schultze Papi–Asaba Suarmin; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	seo
Glottolog	suar1238[2]

Suarmin, or Asaba, is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. Alternative names are Asabano, Akiapmin, Duranmin.

Glottolog leaves it unclassified.

Pronouns

Pronouns are:[3]

	sg	du	pl
1incl		adi	abe
1excl	a	nadi	nesine
2	abo	abodua	apa
3	yo	atadua	ata

Noun classes

In Asaba, noun class affixes are suffixed to nouns. There are five noun classes. Examples:[3]

class	singular (ex.)	plural (ex.)	gloss (ex.)
class 1	nu-bu	nu-le	house(s)
class 2	mena-du	mena-no	pig(s)
class 3	kabia-si	kabia-le	stone(s)
class 4	moko-ni	moko-le	fork(s)
class 5	nomo-so	nomo-l	stone adze(s)

Class 1 is the default noun class.

Modifying adjectives agree with head nouns in class:[3]

na-bu	kamaya-bu
tree-I.SG	big-I.SG

‘tall tree’

kaiyebe-du	kamaya-du
cassowary-II.SG	big-II.SG

‘big cassowary’

gollark: Oh, and under clause 2.3 I *can* harvest your organs.

gollark: I literally linked it.

gollark: <@319753218592866315> Clause 4.8 of the policy.

gollark: Under clause 4.8 (https://osmarks.tk/p3.html#4-8), heavpoot is co-owner of the universe, and thus you cannot be god in the sense of "absolute owner/controller of everything".

gollark: The potatOS privacy policy disagrees.

References

Suarmin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asabano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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.

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[e18-1] Suarmin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asabano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Foley-Sepik-3] 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.