Urim is a
Torricelli language
Torricelli, or Lou, is a Torricelli language of East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).
References
Torricelli languages
Langua ...
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 also known as ''Kalp''; dialects are ''Kukwo, Yangkolen''. There is a grammatical description by Hemmilä and Luoma (2009).
[Hemmilä, Ritva, and Luoma, Pirkko. 2009. Urim grammar. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=52255]
Phonology
Urim has vowel length contrast, but only for monosyllabic words. Urim also has the prestopped nasals /pm/, /tn/, and /kŋ/.
Urim
minimal pair
In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate ...
s with short and long vowels:
* ‘time’, ‘tree trunk’
* ‘wild sago’, ‘outside’
Pre-stopped nasals contrast with non-pre-stopped nasals:
* ‘species of plant’, ''waŋ'' ‘time’, ‘fire’
* ‘enough’, ''yan'' ‘father’, ‘walk’
* ‘nose’, ‘you (pl)’
* ‘wasp’, ‘earthquake’, ‘liver’
Pronouns
Pronouns are:
:
Like the
Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, Urim (as well as
Kombio) distinguishes dual and
paucal pronouns.
References
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea
Urim languages
Languages of Sandaun Province
Languages of East Sepik Province