Usku
bahasa Afra
Usku is a language isolate spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Usku, or Afra, is a nearly extinct and poorly documented Papuan language spoken by 20 or more people, mostly adults, in Usku village, Senggi District, Keerom Regency, Papua, Indonesia.
Wurm (1975) placed it as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea, but Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. Usher (2020) found that it was one of the West Pauwasi languages, though divergent from the other two branches of that family. Foley (2018) classifies Usku as a language isolate.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) found lexical similarities between Usku and Kaure. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
From Wikipedia · Usku language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Usku
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | na* | |
| name | t3kwar* | |
| eye | nifi* | |
| ear | bEkria* | |
| nose | mEnti* | |
| tooth | ningrE* | |
| tongue | bra* | |
| blood | misiE* | |
| bone | kra* | |
| skin | ninE* | |
| knee | 3Ngrwa* | |
| breast | mi* | |
| liver | mEsE* | |
| water | a* | |
| fire | yo* | |
| sun | winEnE* | |
| star | armapu* | |
| stone | pani* | |
| mountain | k3i* | |
| tree | ninani* | |
| leaf | kondza* | |
| night | mENgri* | |
| dog | mla* | |
| fish | aNgnE* | |
| louse | nimi* | |
| one | kuskapi* | |
| two | narsE* | |
| I | o* | |
| you | po* | |
| we | sonarna* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · usku1243 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · ulf