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Porome language
Language isolate of Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Porome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.
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Classification
Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages, there is no evidence for a connection apart from the pronouns 1sg amo and 2sg do (cf. proto-Kiwaian *mo and *oro).
Distribution
There are over a thousand speakers in Babaguina (7.480977°S 144.254009°E), Doibo (7.45766°S 144.271731°E), Ero (7.446131°S 144.364831°E), Paile, Tipeowo, and Wowa (7.414287°S 144.315579°E) villages in West Kikori Rural LLG and East Kikori Rural LLG of Gulf Province, near the Aird Hills and Kikori River tributaries.[2][3]
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Phonology
Porome has 9 native consonants. /s/ occurs in loanwords. There are no glottal consonants.[4]
p t k~g~ɣ b d v m n r (s)
There are five vowels, which are /a, e, i, o, u/.[4]
Like the surrounding languages, Porome is a tonal language. It has 5 tones.[4]
- High-level: kóí ‘cloth’
- Low-level: kòì ‘selfish’
- Rising: mèrí ‘road’
- Falling: mérì ‘pandanus’
- Peaking: pàkúmì ‘feather’
Pronouns
The independent pronouns and subject suffixes to the verb are as follows:
Vocabulary
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Selected Porome vocabulary from Petterson (2010):[5]
Body parts
Numerals
Village and society
Nature and environment
Plants
Animals
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Comparison
Lexical comparison of Porome with neighboring languages:[4]
Comparison of Porome's phonological inventory with those of neighboring languages:[4]
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References
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