Mundugumor (Munduguma, Mundukomo) Biwat is a
Yuat language
The Yuat languages are an independent family of five Papuan languages spoken along the Yuat River in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. They are an independent family in the classification of Malcolm Ross, but are included in Stephen Wurm' ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It is spoken in Biwat village () of
Yuat Rural LLG
Yuat Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It is named after the Yuat River. The Yuat languages are spoken in this LLG.
Wards
*01. Kundima
*02. Aragunum
*03. Saparu
*04. Kinakaten
*05. Akuran
*06. ...
,
East Sepik Province
East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 433,481 people (2010 census) and is 43,426 km square in size.
History
Cherubim Dambui was appointed as East Sepik's first premier ...
.
Phonology
Mundukumo consonants are:
:
Nouns
Some examples showing Mundukomo nouns and their irregular plural forms:
:
Similar patterns of complex nominal plural allomorphy are also found in the
Lower Sepik-Ramu languages
Lower may refer to:
*Lower (surname)
*Lower Township, New Jersey
*Lower Receiver (firearms)
*Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England
See also
*Nizhny
Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́ ...
.
External links
*
Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
has a collection of recordings o
Biwat language They also have a collection of recordings from Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific from
Don Laycock tha
includes Biwat materials
Further reading
*McDowell, Nancy. 1991. ''The Mundugumor: From the Fieldnotes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune''. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
*McElvenny, James. 2007. ''Notes on Mundukumo''. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
References
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea
Yuat languages
Languages of East Sepik Province