Kimki
bahasa Aipki
Kimki is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Kimki (Aipki) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim. Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).
From Wikipedia · Kimki language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kimki
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ap* | |
| name | mi* | |
| eye | 3* | |
| ear | bwa* | |
| nose | katop* | |
| tooth | lu* | |
| tongue | albakh* | |
| blood | apupla* | |
| bone | kwal* | |
| skin | itba* | |
| knee | ublikh* | |
| breast | moe* | |
| liver | ukum* | |
| water | di* | |
| fire | kamop* | |
| sun | bwakaya* | |
| star | ile* | |
| stone | kwil* | |
| mountain | ble* | |
| tree | maur* | |
| leaf | bwaith* | |
| night | bulok* | |
| dog | sa* | |
| fish | bwaili* | |
| louse | nim* | |
| one | amatri* | |
| two | alas* | |
| I | win* | |
| you | pume* | |
| we | name* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- AtsamAtlantic-Congo17% alike
- MurkimLepki-Murkim-Kembra15% alike
- Kol (Bangladesh)Austroasiatic10% alike
- PitiAtlantic-Congo10% alike
- ManipuriSino-Tibetan10% alike
- Karkar-YuriPauwasi10% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · kimk1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · sbt