Buna is a
Torricelli language of
Marienberg Rural LLG
Marienberg Rural LLG (also Marienberg Hills Rural LLG) is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The Marienberg languages are spoken in this LLG, as well as various Lower Sepik-Ramu languages and the isolate ...
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East Sepik Province
East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer.
History
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
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There are two divergent dialects. One dialect is spoken in Kasmin (), Boig (), Waskurin (), and Arapang () villages, and another in Masan, Mangan (), and Garien villages.
Morphology
Buna has four noun class
In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some ...
es. Noun class concord affixes in Buna are shown in the following examples.
References
External links
* Paradisec houses a collection of Arthur Capell
Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages.
Early life
Capell was born in Newtown, New South W ...
's materials that include Boiken
AC2
as well as recordings by Bill Foley
WF3
and notebooks from Don Laycock's work
DL2
. All of these collections are open access.
Marienberg languages
Languages of East Sepik Province
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