Saponi language
| Saponi | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Guinea |
| Extinct | moribund by 2000[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | spi |
| Glottolog | sapo1254 |
| ELP | Saponi |
Saponi is an extinct Papuan language of Indonesia.[1] It shared half of its basic vocabulary with the Rasawa language, but it's not clear that they were related. Saponi shared none of its pronouns with the Lakes Plain family that Rasawa is part of; indeed its basic pronouns mamire "I, we" and ba "thou" are reminiscent of proto–East Bird's Head *meme "we" and *ba "thou".
References
- ^ a b Saponi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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