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Mpur

bahasa Amberbaken

Mpur is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Mpur · 0.7°S 133.2°E

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.

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Words in Mpur

MeaningWordRomanization
personman*
namemuk*
eyeam*
earkwaip*
noseminsan*
tonguebitraw*
handwom*
bloodfar*
boneip*
skinfek*
kneepejaw*
breastsut*
livernabwaur*
waterwar
fireyet*
sunput*
starton*
stonebit*
mountainsor*
treeni*
leafbwa*
nightdim*
dogper*
fishmwan*
louseim*
onetu*
twodokir*
Iin*
younen*
weyek*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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

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