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Dem language

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Region
  
Papua

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea? Dem

Glottolog
  
demm1245

Native speakers
  
(1,000 cited 1987)

ISO 639-3
  
dem

Dem language

Dem (Lem, Ndem) is a possible Trans–New Guinea language in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). A small number of words connect it to other language families of the Irian Highlands, but they are not consistent correspondences, and it is not clear what they mean. The only pronouns which have been recorded are 1sg nau, 2sg , and 1pl yu.

References

Dem language Wikipedia