Asmat–Kamrau languages

Asmat–Kamrau
Ethnicity	Asmat people etc.
Geographic distribution	New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Asmat–Mombum Asmat–Kamrau
Glottolog	asma1256
Map: The Asmat–Kamrau languages of New Guinea   The Asmat–Kamrau languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Asmat – Kamrau Bay languages are a family of a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Asmat and related peoples in southern Western New Guinea. They are believed to be a recent expansion along the south coast, as they are all closely related, and there is little differentiation in their pronounns.

They are:

• Kamrau Bay (Sabakor): Buruwai (Sabakor), North Kamberau (Iria), South Kamberau (Asienara)
• Asmat–Kamoro
  • Asmat (dialects: Casuarina Coast, Yaosakor, Central, North, Tamnim Citak) Citak (dialects: Diuwe)
  • Kamoro
  • Sempan

Pronouns are:

	sg	pl
1	*no[ro]	*na[re]
2	*o[ro]/we[rV]	*ca[re]
3	*a[re]

Bibliography

• Drabbe. 1953. Spraakkunst van de Kamoro-taal. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
• Drabbe. 1963. Drie Asmat-dialecten. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, No. 42. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
• Voorhoeve, C.L. 1965. The Flamingo Bay Dialect of the Asmat language. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, No. 46. The Hague.
• Voorhoeve, C.L. 1968. "The Central and South New Guinea Phylum: a report on the language situation in south New Guinea." Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 16: 1-17. Canberra: The Australian National University.
• Voorhoeve, C.L. 1975. Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist, Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists. Pacific Linguistics, Series B, No. 31. Canberra: The Australian National University.
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• Wurm, Stephan Adolphe. 1983. The Papuan Languages of Oceania. Ars Linguistica 7. Tübingen: Narr.