Dem
bahasa Dem
Dem is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Dem (Lem, Ndem) is a divergent Papuan language of West New Guinea. Although Palmer (2018) leaves it unclassified, it was tentatively included in the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), and Timothy Usher ties it most closely to Amung.
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Words in Dem
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ap* | |
| name | gago* | |
| eye | eNgio* | |
| ear | yoN3lo* | |
| nose | y3mberawak* | |
| tooth | yaNasa* | |
| tongue | alen3ru* | |
| hand | yagaya* | |
| blood | mit* | |
| skin | asi* | |
| knee | waku* | |
| liver | auwaNg3ru* | |
| water | da* | |
| fire | kunu* | |
| sun | uwem4ja* | |
| star | kwi* | |
| mountain | Ngax* | |
| tree | niye* | |
| night | damuk* | |
| dog | kwa* | |
| louse | ndu* | |
| I | nau* | |
| you | aN* | |
| we | yu* | |
| drink | dawak* | |
| see | korak* | |
| hear | insiemo* | |
| die | bugwawe* | |
| come | m3nawe* | |
| full | dowawe* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · demm1245 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · dem