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Porome language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Language family
  
language isolate ?

ISO 639-3
  
prm

Native speakers
  
1,200 (2011)

Dialects
  
Porome Kibiri

Porome language

Region
  
Gulf Province, Kikori District, near Aird Hills, on several tributaries of Kikori River, villages of Tipeowo, Doibo, Paile, Babaguina, Ero, and Wowa.southern Papua New Guinea

Porome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. There are over a thousand speakers.

Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages, there is no evidence for a connection apart from the pronouns 1sg amo and 2sg do.

The independent pronouns and subject suffixes to the verb are as follows:

References

Porome language Wikipedia