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Kamula

Kamula is a Kamula-Elevala language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Kamula · 7.3°S 142.6°E

Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified.

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Words in Kamula

MeaningWordRomanization
womaneya
personso*
namehi*
eyeinoma*
earmolo*
nosemu*
toothape*
tonguete*
handdo*
bloodomali*
boneelo*
skinkapala*
kneealuma*
breastmeme*
wateryú
firedlapa*
sunsali*
startamili*
stoneewala*
mountaintamali*
treedali*
leafupa*
nightutlala*
dogesemala*
fishamalo*
louseia*
onehatlope*
twodapiamte*
Ina*
youwe*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

Most similar languages

Vocabulary

  • PareKamula-Elevala18% alike
  • WarunaSuki-Gogodala14% alike
  • LilauBogia13% alike
  • EraveNuclear Trans New Guinea12% alike
  • AuwonSepik11% alike
  • YalaAtlantic-Congo11% alike

Grammar

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

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