Marori

bahasa Morori

Marori is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia, by about 50 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.

Marori · 8.6°S 140.7°E

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Morori (Marori, Moaraeri, Moraori, Morari) is a moribund Papuan language of the Kolopom branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It is separated from the other Kolopom languages by the intrusive Marind family. All speakers use Papuan Malay or Indonesian as L2, and many know Marind.

A dialect extinct in 1997, Menge, is remembered from ceremonial use.

Marori is spoken in Kampung Wasur, which in 2010 had 413 people (98 families) total and 119 Marori people (52 Marori families).

From Wikipedia · Morori language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Marori

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	purpam*
name	naw*
eye	ayiw*
ear	merew*
nose	kon*
tooth	taraw*
tongue	mpreN*
hand	koraw*
blood	Ngorom*
bone	Ngwar*
skin	par*
breast	mam*
water	daka*
fire	sir*
sun	kum*
star	keryi*
stone	marah*
tree	kwi*
leaf	yorwo*
night	piaN*
dog	koro*
fish	awe*
louse	nemeNg*
one	sokodu*
two	yenadu*
I	noa*
you	ka*
we	nie*
path	bia*
new	nomon*