Kimki language
Kimki (Aipki[3]) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim.[3] Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
| Kimki | |
|---|---|
| Sukubatom | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 500 (2004)[1] |
Pauwasi
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sbt |
| Glottolog | kimk1238 |
| ELP | Kimki[2] |
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[4] 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).[5]
Basic vocabulary
Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):[3]
Kimki basic vocabulary gloss Kimki ‘bird’ ã ‘blood’ afupla ‘bone’ kwal ‘breast’ mua ‘ear’ bwa ‘eat’ auko ‘egg’ im ‘eye’ ẽ ‘fire’ kamop ‘give’ an ‘go’ bi ~ kaik ‘ground’ nim ‘hair’ it ‘hear’ fas ‘leg’ up ‘louse’ nim ‘man’ ap ‘moon’ lokaya ‘name’ aip ~ mi ‘one’ amatri ‘road, path’ bagin ‘see’ weː ‘sky’ fim ‘stone’ kwil ‘sun’ bwakaya ‘tongue’ albak ‘tooth’ luː ‘tree’ maul ‘two’ alas ‘water’ dɪ ‘woman’ kiam
Sentences
Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):[6][3]
(1)
warime mame aik yesterday 3 come - ‘He came yesterday.’
(2)
mame mambak me bi 3 village OBL go - ‘She went to the village.’
(3)
mame kaes augo 3 cooked.rice eat - ‘She eats cooked rice.’
(4)
mame wambani wel-aba-me an 3 money 1SG.POSS?-father-OBL? give - ‘She gave money to my father.’
Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.
References
- Kimki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Kimki.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- 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).
- New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River
- 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.