Kamula language

Kamula
Wawoi
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	800 (1998)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Kamula
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`xla`
Glottolog	`kamu1260`^[2]
Map: The Kamula language of New Guinea The Kamula language Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited

Kamula is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). The little data we have on Kamula pronouns does not fit in with the neighboring East Strickland or Bosavi languages (though 1sg nê likely reflects proto-TNG *na), so Kamula is best left as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea pending further study.

Attested pronouns are 1sg nɛ̃, 2sg wɛ̃, and ̩pl diɛ.

References

↑ Kamula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kamula". 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.

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