Kaure language

Kaure
Region Papua
Native speakers
450 (1995)[1]
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.


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