Samo language (New Guinea)

Samo
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
900 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 smq
Glottolog samo1303[2]

Samo, also known as Daba, Nomad, and Supei, is a Trans–New Guinea language of New Guinea, spoken in the plains east of the Strickland River in Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It has switch-reference marking for the subject of a clause.

References

  1. Samo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Samo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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