Mundugumor (Munduguma, Mundukomo) Biwat is a
Yuat language 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,
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
Lower Wick is a small hamlet located in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated about five miles south west of Dursley, eigh ...
.
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- ...
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 Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.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