Burum language
Appearance
Burum | |
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Mindik | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 9,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bmu |
Glottolog | buru1306 |
Burum (also known as Yaknge or Somba-Siawari after its two dialects and Mindik in the language itself) is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Its closest related language is Borong (also known as Kosorong).[2]
Orthography
[edit]Uppercase letters | A | B | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | Ŋ | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | W | Gw | Y | Z | Ö |
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Lowercase letters | a | b | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | w | gw | y | z | ö |
IPA | /ɑ/ | /b/ | /d/ | /e/ | /f/ | /ɡ/ | /ɣ/ | /i/ | /dz/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /p/ | /kʷ/ | /r/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /w/ | /gʷ/ | /j/ | /t͡s/ | /ə/ |
References
[edit]- ^ Burum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Bulum River - newguineaworld".
- ^ Olkkonen, Soini (1994), Organised Phonology Data (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10, retrieved 2018-07-10
External links
[edit]- Somba-Siawari (Burum Mindik)—English dictionary (PDF)
- Organised Phonology Data (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10, retrieved 2018-07-10
- The Clitics of the Somba-Siawari Language (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10, retrieved 2018-07-10
- Burum-Mindik Swadesh List