Amung language

Uhunduni
Damal
Amung
Region	Papua
Ethnicity	Amung people
Native speakers	14,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Uhunduni
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uhn
Glottolog	dama1272[2]
Map: The Amung language of New Guinea   The Amung language   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Uhunduni, also known as Damal and Amung (Amung Kal) after two of its dialects, is the language of the Amung people. It is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms an independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Dialects are Dialects Amongme, Amung, Damal, Enggipilu. Pronouns are:

	sg	du	pl
1	na	iru	enoŋ
2	a		erop
3	na		nuŋ

Iru is an inclusive dual.

References

1. Uhunduni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Damal". 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. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.