Mor language (Papuan)

Not to be confused with Mor language (Austronesian).
Mor
Region West Papua
Native speakers
30 (2012)[1]
70 semi-speakers (2012)
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, possibly 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

References

  1. Mor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mor". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 1566. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782. 


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