Samo language (New Guinea)

Not to be confused with Samo language (Burkina) or Owiniga language.
Samo
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
 900 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 smq
Glottolog samo1303[2]

Samo, also known as Daba, Nomad, and Supei, is a Trans–New Guinea language of New Guinea, spoken in the plains east of the Strickland River in Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It has switch-reference marking for the subject of a clause.

References

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


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