Doso is a language of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct
Turumsa language, its only clear relative. It is spoken near
Kamula
Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified.
Demographics
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but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
:
References
Doso–Turumsa languages
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