Amung language

Uhunduni
	Damal
	Amung
Region	Papua
Ethnicity	Amung people
Native speakers	14,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea West Papuan Highlands (Irian Highlands) Amung–Dem Uhunduni; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uhn
Glottolog	dama1272[2]
	Map: The Amung language of New Guinea The Amung language Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited

Uhunduni, also known as Damal and Amung (Amung Kal) after two of its dialects, is the language of the Amung people. It is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms an independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Dialects are Amongme, Amung, Damal, Enggipilu. Pronouns are:

	sg	du	pl
1	na	iru	enoŋ
2	a		erop
3	na		nuŋ

Iru is an inclusive dual.

References

↑ Uhunduni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Damal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

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[e18-1] Uhunduni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Damal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.