Mombum languages

Mombum
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

Glottolog: momb1255[1]

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Map: The Mombum languages of New Guinea
  The Mombum languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Mombum languages are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Koneraw and Mombum, spoken just off the southern coast of New Guinea.

Mombum was first classified as a branch isolate of the Central and South New Guinea languages in Stephen Wurm's 1975 expansion for Trans–New Guinea, a position tentatively maintained by Malcolm Ross, though he cannot tell if the similarities are shared innovations or retentions from proto-TNG. Koneraw is clearly related to Mombum, but was overlooked by early classifications. Along with the Kolopom languages, they are the languages spoken on Yos Sudarso Island (Kolopom Island).

Pronouns are:

sgpl
1 *nu*nu-mu, *ni
2 *yu*yu-mu
3 *eu

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mombum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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