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Oksapmin language
Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the local-level government in Papua New Guinea, see Oksapmin Rural LLG.
Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea. The two principal dialects are distinct enough to cause some problems with mutual intelligibility.
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Oksapmin | |
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Oksap | |
nuxule meŋ 'our language' | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2005)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | opm |
Glottolog | oksa1245 |
ELP | Oksapmin |
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The Oksapmin language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
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Oksapmin has dyadic kinship terms[2] and a body-part counting system that goes up to 27.[3] Notable ethnographic research by Geoffrey B. Saxe at UC Berkeley has documented the encounter between pre-contact uses of number and its cultural evolution under conditions of monetization and exposure to schooling and the formal economy among the Oksapmin.[4]