Kaure language

Kaure
Region	Papua
Native speakers	450 (1995)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea ? Kaure
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: bpp – Kaure nxu – Narau
Glottolog	kaur1272[2]
Map: The Kaure, Kapori, and Kosare languages of New Guinea   The Kaure, Kapori, and Kosare languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

Kaure is a Papuan language of West Papua. Narau is either a dialect or a closely related language.

Pronouns

Attested pronouns are 1sg wẽ, 2sg hane, 1pl nene. The 2sg form resembles Mek *ka-n, and 1pl resembles Pauwasi numu~nin, but apart from that little can be said.

Kaure–Kapori hypothesis

Voorhoeve (1975) suggested that Kaure was related to Kapori and Kosare, two otherwise unclassified languages. However, subsequent evaluations have not found any significant connections (Rumaropen 2006, Wambaliau 2006).

References

1. Kaure at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Narau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kaure–Narau". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Benny Rumaropen (2006) "Draft Survey Report on the Kapauri Language of Papua." SIL Electronic Survey Reports.
• Theresia Wambaliau (2006) "Draft Laporan Survei pada Bahasa Kosare di Papua, Indonesia." SIL Electronic Survey Reports.