Kuman
Kuman is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Kuman (also Chimbu or Simbu) is a language of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. In 1994, it was estimated that 80,000 people spoke Kuman, with 10,000 of them being monolingual in the language. In the 2000 census, 115,000 Kuman-speakers were reported, with few monolinguals. Ethnologue reported 70,000 second language speakers in 2021.
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Words in Kuman
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | ambu | |
| person | yomba* | |
| name | kagina* | |
| eye | ogmuLo* | |
| ear | kinana* | |
| nose | gumana* | |
| tooth | sigina* | |
| tongue | drambina* | |
| hand | oguna* | |
| blood | bormai* | |
| bone | iombura* | |
| skin | nagina* | |
| knee | goLko* | |
| breast | amuno* | |
| liver | munduna* | |
| water | niL* | |
| fire | dogwa* | |
| sun | ande* | |
| star | kuLkuri* | |
| stone | kombuLo* | |
| mountain | muLo* | |
| tree | endi* | |
| leaf | yaundo* | |
| night | endiwer* | |
| dog | aL* | |
| fish | buLobaLe* | |
| louse | numan* | |
| one | suwara* | |
| two | suwo* | |
| I | na* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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