Elseng language

"Tabu language" redirects here. For Tabu dialect, see Konyak language.

Elseng
Morwap
Region	Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers	unknown (300 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Border ? Elseng
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mrf`
Glottolog	`else1239`^[2]

Elseng (Morwap) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by about 300 people (in 1991) in the Indonesian province of Papua. It is also known as Morwap, which means "what is it?"

Laycock classified Elseng as a language isolate, but noted pronominal similarities with the Border languages. Ross included it in Border because of these similarities, but noted that it does not appear to share any lexical similarities with the family. However, this may be an effect of the paucity of data on Elseng.

References

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

External links

Burung, Wiem. 2000. "A brief note on Elseng." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2000-001

Border languages (New Guinea)

Waris	Amanab Auwe Daonda Imonda Manem Punda-Umeda Senggi Waina Waris

Taikat	Awyi Taikat

Bewani	Ainbai Kilmeri Ningera Pagi Umeda

Other	Morwap

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