Oksapmin
nuxule meŋ
Oksapmin is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea, by about 8,000 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
The two principal dialects are distinct enough to cause some problems with mutual intelligibility.
Oksapmin has dyadic kinship terms and a body-part counting system that goes up to 27. Notable ethnographic research by Geoffrey B. Saxe at UC Berkeley has documented the encounter between pre-contact uses of number and its cultural evolution under conditions of monetization and exposure to schooling and the formal economy among the Oksapmin.
From Wikipedia · Oksapmin language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Oksapmin
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | xan3p* | |
| name | un* | |
| eye | kin* | |
| ear | nat* | |
| nose | lum* | |
| tooth | ga* | |
| hand | xan* | |
| blood | xem* | |
| bone | t3m* | |
| skin | bok* | |
| knee | k3tin* | |
| breast | non* | |
| liver | w3m* | |
| water | tom | |
| fire | lat* | |
| star | 3wloxon* | |
| stone | kwe* | |
| mountain | ye* | |
| tree | lat* | |
| leaf | lin* | |
| night | ku* | |
| dog | myan* | |
| fish | 3niN* | |
| louse | kaksup* | |
| one | tipun* | |
| two | l3watipun* | |
| I | nox* | |
| you | go* | |
| we | dil* | |
| drink | d* |
* 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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Glottolog · oksa1245 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · opm