Region Papua ISO 639-3 tmj | Native speakers (400 cited 1982) Glottolog sama1240 | |
Language family Tor–Kwerba
Greater Kwerba
Airoran–Samarokena
Samarokena | ||
Samarokena (Samarkena, Karfasia, Tamaja ~ Tamaya) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken in Indonesian Papua. Wurm (1975) linked it to the Kwerba languages, but Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. Donahue (2002) found that the pronouns correspond closely to those of Airoran, though both are divergent from the Kwerba languages of the interior.
References
Samarokena language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA