Kimki (Aipki) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District,

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, Papua,

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. Foley classifies Kimki as a

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, although he notes some similarities with Murkim. Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages. An automated computational analysis (

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4) by Müller et al. (2013)Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013.
ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)
'. found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance. Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River
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Pronouns

Pronouns are: :

Basic vocabulary

Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018): :

Sentences

Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):Rumaropen, Benny. 2004. Sociolinguistic report on the varieties of the Kimki Language in the region southeast of Ji Mountain, Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia. Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.

References

{{Languages of Indonesia Languages of western New Guinea South Pauwasi languages