Mpur
bahasa Amberbaken
Mpur is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Mpur (also known as Amberbaken, Kebar, Ekware, and Dekwambre) is a language isolate spoken in and around Mpur and Amberbaken Districts in Tambrauw Regency of the Bird's Head Peninsula, New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Palmer (2018), Ethnologue, and Glottolog list it as a language isolate.
From Wikipedia · Mpur language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Mpur
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | man* | |
| name | muk* | |
| eye | am* | |
| ear | kwaip* | |
| nose | minsan* | |
| tongue | bitraw* | |
| hand | wom* | |
| blood | far* | |
| bone | ip* | |
| skin | fek* | |
| knee | pejaw* | |
| breast | sut* | |
| liver | nabwaur* | |
| water | war | |
| fire | yet* | |
| sun | put* | |
| star | ton* | |
| stone | bit* | |
| mountain | sor* | |
| tree | ni* | |
| leaf | bwa* | |
| night | dim* | |
| dog | per* | |
| fish | mwan* | |
| louse | im* | |
| one | tu* | |
| two | dokir* | |
| I | in* | |
| you | nen* | |
| we | yek* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · mpur1239 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · akc