Samarokena (Samarkena, Karfasia, Tamaja ~ Tamaya) is a poorly documented
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
spoken in
Indonesian Papua.
Samarokena is spoken in Karfasia, Maseb, Samarkena, and Tamaya villages.
Wurm (1975) linked it to the
Kwerba languages
The half dozen Kwerba languages form a small language family spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia.
Languages
The languages are,
*Bagusa language, Bagusa
*Kauwera language, Kauwera (Kaowerawedj)
*Kwerba language, Kwerba (Sasawa, Air Mati)
*Kwerba ...
, but
Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. Donahue (2002) found that the pronouns correspond closely to those of
Airoran, though both are divergent from the Kwerba languages of the interior.
References
*Clouse, Duane, Mark Donohue and Felix Ma. 2002. "Survey report of the north coast of Irian Jaya
Languages of Western New Guinea
Kwerbic languages
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