Burum language

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.

Burum
Mindik
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionHuon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
9,000 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Somba
  • Siawari
Language codes
ISO 639-3bmu
Glottologburu1306[2]

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////r//s//t//u//w////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). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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