Kalamang language
| Karas | |
|---|---|
| Kalamang | |
| Region | West Papua |
Native speakers | 100 (2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kgv |
| Glottolog | kara1499 |
| ELP | Karas |
Karas is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the Karas Islands off the Bomberai Peninsula, that appears to be most closely related to the West Bomberai languages.
Pronouns
Cowan (1953) records the following pronouns for Karas.
| SG | DU | PL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aan | inir | piridok (exc.) aantemu (?) (inc.) |
| 2 | kame | ? | kijumene |
| 3 | mame | mjeir | mubameir |
References
- Cowan, H.K.J. 1953. Voorlopige Resultaten van een Ambtelijk Taalonderzoek in Nieuw-Guinea. 's-Gravenhage: Marinus Nijhoff.
- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- 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.