Amberbaken language

"Mpur language" redirects here. For Mpur dialect of Yansi, see Mpur dialect. For Mpur language of Ghana, see Mpur language (Ghana).
Amberbaken
Mpur
Native to Papua
Region North coast of Bird's Head
Native speakers
7,000 (1993)[1]
West Papuan ?
  • Amberbaken
Dialects
Sirir
Ajiw
Language codes
ISO 639-3 akc
Glottolog mpur1239[2]

Amberbaken, or Mpur (also known as 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 and Glottolog list it as a language isolate.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Amberbaken at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mpur". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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