Porome language
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| Porome | ||
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| Spoken in | Papua New Guinea | |
| Region | southern Papua New Guinea | |
| Coordinates | 7°27′S 144°17′E / 7.45°S 144.283°E | |
| Total speakers | 1,100 (1977 SIL). | |
| Language family | Trans–New Guinea ?
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | prm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Porome or Kibiri language is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. It was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Würm, but recently Malcolm Ross has linked it to the Kiwaian languages, possibly part of the Trans–New Guinea family. There are over a thousand speakers.
[edit] Sources
- The Ethnologue page for Kibiri
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds.. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. pp. 15-66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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