Amberbaken language

Amberbaken
Mpur
Spoken in	Papua
Region	North coast of Bird's Head
Native speakers	7000 (date missing)
Language family	West Papuan ? Amberbaken
Dialects	Sirir Ajiw
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`akc`

Amberbaken, also known as Mpur, Kebar, Ekware, and Dekwambre, is a divergent language of New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue (2009) removed it as a language isolate.

References

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. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.