Mor language (Papuan)

Mor
Region	West Papua
Native speakers	30 (2012)[1] 70 semi-speakers (2012)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Mor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	moq
Glottolog	morb1239[2]
Map: The Mor language of New Guinea   The Mor language   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

Mor is a nearly extinct, possibly Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It forms a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2 ng pronouns na- and a-:

	sg	pl
1	na-ya	ne-a
2	a-ya	omase
3	mena	morimene

References

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