Samarokena (Samarkena, Karfasia, Tamaja ~ Tamaya) is a poorly documented
Papuan language
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spoken in
Indonesian Papua
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.
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 Jayapura Regency
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, but
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People
* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
* Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning
* Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland
Places
* RoSS, the Republic of Sou ...
(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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