Burum language

Burum
Mindik
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
 9,000 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Somba
  • Siawari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bmu
Glottolog buru1306[2]

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.

Orthography

[3]
Uppercase letters ABDEFGHIJKLMNŊOPQRSTUWGwYZÖ
Lowercase letters abdefghijklmnŋopqrstuwgwyzö
IPA /ɑ//b//d//e//f//ɡ//ɤ//i//dz//k//l//m//n//ŋ//o//p//kʷ//r//s//t//u//w//gʷ//j//t͡s//ə/

References

  1. ↑ Burum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Burum-Mindik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Olkkonen, Soini (1994). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
  • "Somba-Siawari (Burum Mindik)—English dictionary" (PDF).
  • "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
  • "The Clitics of the Somba-Siawari Language" (PDF).
  • Burum-Mindik Swadesh List


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