Amung language
| Uhunduni | |
|---|---|
| Damal | |
| Amung | |
| Region | Papua |
| Ethnicity | Amung people |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2000)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
uhn |
| Glottolog |
dama1272[2] |
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Map: The Amung language of New Guinea
The Amung language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
The Uhunduni, also known as Damal and Amung (Amung Kal) after two of its dialects, is the language of the Amung people. It is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms an independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).
Dialects are Dialects Amongme, Amung, Damal, Enggipilu. Pronouns are:
sg du pl 1 na iru enoŋ 2 a erop 3 na nuŋ
Iru is an inclusive dual.
References
- ↑ Uhunduni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Damal". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 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.