Turumsa language
Turumsa is a possibly extinct Papuan language of Makapa village (7.937872°S 142.576135°E) in Gogodala Rural LLG, Middle Fly District, Papua New Guinea.[3][4] It has been classified as a Bosavi language, and is 19% lexically similar with Dibiyaso, but this appears to be due to loans. It has a greater (61%) lexical similarity with Doso, its only clear relative.[2]
| Turumsa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 5 (2002)[1] possibly extinct (2011) |
Papuan Gulf ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tqm |
| Glottolog | turu1250[2] |
There were only five elderly speakers found in 2002. Today, most people in Makapa village speak Dibiyaso.[5]
References
- Turumsa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Turumsa". 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.
- 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.
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