Mombum languages

Mombum
Marianne Strait
Geographic
distribution		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification Trans–New Guinea
  • Asmat–Mombum[1]
    • Mombum
Glottolog momb1255[2]
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Map: The Mombum languages of New Guinea
  The Mombum languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Mombum languages are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Koneraw and Mombum, spoken just off the southern coast of New Guinea.[3]

Mombum was first classified as a branch isolate of the Central and South New Guinea languages in Stephen Wurm's 1975 expansion for Trans–New Guinea, a position tentatively maintained by Malcolm Ross, though he cannot tell if the similarities are shared innovations or retentions from proto-TNG. Usher instead links them to the Asmat languages.[1] Koneraw is clearly related to Mombum, but was overlooked by early classifications. Along with the Kolopom languages, they are the languages spoken on Yos Sudarso Island (Kolopom Island).

Pronouns are:

sgpl
1 *nu*nu-mu, *ni
2 *yu*yu-mu
3 *eu

References

  1. 1 2 New Guinea World, Asmat – Marianne Strait
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mombum". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ New Guinea World, Marianne Strait
  • 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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