Morori language

Not to be confused with Moriori language.
Morori
Moraori
Region Papua
Ethnicity 250 (1998)[1]
Native speakers
50 (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mok
Glottolog moro1289[2]

Map: The Morori language of New Guinea
  The Morori language (near the southern cape)
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Morori (Marori, Moaraeri, Moraori, Morari) is a moribund Papuan language that forms an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). All speakers use Papuan Malay or Indonesian as L2, and many know Marind.[1]

An dialect extinct in 1997, Menge, is remembered from ceremonial use.

Pronouns, but little else, connect it to TNG:

sgpl
1 nani-ɛ
2 kaki-ɛ
3 ŋɡafiŋɡamdɛ

References

  1. 1 2 3 Morori at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Morori". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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