Region West Papua ISO 639-3 tcm | Native speakers (500 cited 1978) Glottolog tana1288 | |
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Language family Trans–New Guinea
Sumeri | ||
Sumeri or Sumerine (one of two Papuan languages also known as Tanah Merah) is a language spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula by about a thousand people.
Classification
In the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), Sumeri forms an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It has also been linked to the Mairasi languages, but those do not share the TNG pronouns of Sumeri. The pronouns are:
There are no 3rd-person personal pronouns, only demonstratives. The pronouns appear to reflect pTNG *na 1sg, *ga 2sg, and *gi 2pl.
References
Sumeri language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA