The Kolopom languages are a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of
Trans–New Guinea languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands ‒ corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as parts of Indonesia.
Trans–New Guinea is the third-la ...
in the classifications of
Stephen Wurm (1975) and of
Malcolm Ross (2005). Along with the
Mombum languages
The Mombum languages, also known as the Komolom or Muli Strait languages, are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Mombum (Komolom) and Koneraw, spoken on Komolom Island just off Yos Sudarso Island, and on the southern coast of Yos Sudarso I ...
, they are the languages spoken on
Yos Sudarso Island
Pulau Yos Sudarso or Pulau Dolok is an island separated only by the narrow Muli Strait from the main island of New Guinea. It is part of the Merauke Regency, in the Indonesian province of South Papua. The island is leaf-shaped, about long with an ...
(
Kolopom Island).
Languages
The Kolopom languages are,
[New Guinea World, Kolopom]
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* Kimaama (Kimaghama), Riantana
* Ndom
* Moraori
Proto-language
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[
:
:
]
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[
:
]
Basic vocabulary
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[
:
]
Cognates
Cognates among Kolopom languages listed by Evans (2018):
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) and Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
Evolution
Kolopom reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Kolopom
{{Papuan languages
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Cook River–Kolopom languages