Kemberano language
Kemberano is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia.[3]
| Kemberano | |
|---|---|
| Weriagar, Barau | |
| Native to | West Papua, Indonesia |
| Region | Bird's Head Peninsula |
Native speakers | (2,500 including Dombano (possibly double counting) cited 1987)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bzp |
| Glottolog | kemb1235[2] |
  Kemberano  Kemberano  Kemberano | |
| Coordinates: 2.24°S 132.99°E | |
Morphology
Kemberano nouns are required to have the following concord suffixes:[3]
- –i (masculine nouns)
- –o (feminine nouns)
Examples (from Berry and Berry 1987: 86):
- pogi enat-i
- pig one-M
- ‘one pig’
- uroko enat-o
- stone one-F
- ‘one stone’
References
- Kemberano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kemberano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian (2018). "The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 569–640. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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