Kuman language (New Guinea)
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| Kuman | ||
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| Spoken in: | Papua New Guinea | |
| Region: | Simbu Province, from Kundiawa to beyond Kerowagi in the west and Gembogl in the north, at the foot of Mount Wilhelm | |
| Total speakers: | 80,000 (1994) | |
| Language family: | Trans-New Guinea Chimbu-Wahgi Chimbu Kuman |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | kue | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Kuman is a language of Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, also known as Simbu or Chimbu. As of 1994, it was spoken by about 80,000 people, 10,000 of which were monolinguals.
[edit] Grammar
Kuman is an SOV language.
[edit] References
Hardie, Peter. 2003. Is Kuman Tonal? An account of basic segmental and tonological structure in the Papuan language Kuman. MA thesis: Australian National University
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