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Imonda

Imonda is a Border language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Imonda · 3.3°S 141.2°E

Imonda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It has a simple consonant system and a complex vowel system with no phonological tones. Imonda is heavily verb-oriented and does not mark nouns for number or gender but marks number on the verb for subject, object, and several other types of noun phrases. Tense, aspect, negation, and interrogation are also indicated in part on the verb. There is a very high-frequency topic clitic, which can be used on noun phrases, adverbs, or verbs. The language has no coordinating or subordinating conjunctions and fills those roles with other approaches.

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Words in Imonda

MeaningWordRomanization
womanagõ
personid*
nameama*
eyenof*
earagu
nosemos*
toothlo*
tonguem3de*
handegla*
bloodtof*
bonek3l*
skinn3x*
breasttot*
waterpo
firesue*
sunokoba*
starpei*
stonepafeia*
mountainolo*
treeti*
nights3*
dogude*
fishtobto*
pigmalhu
louseku
onemugasl*
twosabla*
Ika*
youne*
wep3l*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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