Karas language
Karas is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the Karas Islands off the Bomberai Peninsula, that appears to be most closely related to the West Bomberai languages. It is spoken in Antalisa and Mas villages on Karas Island.[3]
| Karas | |
|---|---|
| Kalamang | |
| Region | West Papua |
Native speakers | 100 (2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kgv |
| Glottolog | kara1499 |
| ELP | Karas[2] |
  Karas  Karas  Karas | |
| Coordinates: 3.47°S 132.68°E | |
Pronouns
Cowan (1953) records the following pronouns for Karas.
| SG | DU | PL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aan | inir | piridok (exc.) aantemu (?) (inc.) |
| 2 | kame | ? | kijumene |
| 3 | mame | mjeir | mubameir |
Visser (2016) records the following pronouns for Karas of Maas village:
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Speakers deny that the difference between the two 1pl forms is clusivity, pace Cowan. The free possessives and possessive suffixes can occur together.[4]
References
- "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- Endangered Languages Project data for Karas.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- New Guinea World, Kalamang
- Cowan, H.K.J. 1953. Voorlopige Resultaten van een Ambtelijk Taalonderzoek in Nieuw-Guinea. 's-Gravenhage: Marinus Nijhoff.
- Visser, Eline (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology (Master thesis). University of Oslo. urn:nbn:no-54973.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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