Mor language (Papuan)

Mor
Region West Papua
Native speakers
 30 (2012)[1]
70 semi-speakers (2012)
Trans–New Guinea
  • Berau Gulf
    • Mor
Language codes
ISO 639-3 moq
Glottolog morb1239[2]
Map: The Mor language of New Guinea
  The Mor language
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Mor is a nearly extinct Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It forms a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2 ng pronouns na- and a-:

sgpl
1 na-yane-a
2 a-yaomase
3 menamorimene

Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mor". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ New Guinea World, Mor

  • 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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