Turumsa language

Turumsa
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 5 (2002)[1]
possibly extinct (2011)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tqm
Glottolog turu1250[2]

Turumsa is a possibly extinct Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It has been classified as a Bosavi language, and is 19% lexically similar with the Bosavi language Dibiyaso, but this appears to be due to loans. It has a greater (61%) lexical similarity with Doso, its only clear relative.[2]

References

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


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