Kimki language
Pauwasi language spoken in Indonesia
| Kimki | |
|---|---|
| Sukubatom | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 500 (2004)[1] |
Language family | Pauwasi
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sbt |
| Glottolog | kimk1238 |
| ELP | Kimki |
Kimki (Aipki[2]) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim.[2] Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[3] found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).[4]
Pronouns
Pronouns are:[2]
Kimki independent pronouns sg pl 1 win name 2 fume same 3 mame
Basic vocabulary
Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):[2]
Kimki basic vocabulary gloss Kimki ‘bird’ ã ‘blood’ afupla ‘bone’ kwal ‘breast’ mua ‘ear’ bwa ‘eat’ auko ‘egg’ im ‘eye’ ẽ ‘fire’ kamop ‘give’ an ‘go’ bi ~ kaik ‘ground’ nim ‘hair’ it ‘hear’ fas ‘leg’ up ‘louse’ nim ‘man’ ap ‘moon’ lokaya ‘name’ aip ~ mi ‘one’ amatri ‘road, path’ bagin ‘see’ weː ‘sky’ fim ‘stone’ kwil ‘sun’ bwakaya ‘tongue’ albak ‘tooth’ luː ‘tree’ maul ‘two’ alas ‘water’ dɪ ‘woman’ kiam
Sentences
Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):[5][2]
(1)
warime
yesterday
mame
3
aik
come
warime mame aik
yesterday 3 come
‘He came yesterday.’
(2)
mame
3
mambak
village
me
OBL
bi
go
mame mambak me bi
3 village OBL go
‘She went to the village.’
(3)
mame
3
kaes
cooked.rice
augo
eat
mame kaes augo
3 cooked.rice eat
‘She eats cooked rice.’
(4)
mame
3
wambani
money
wel-aba-me
1SG.POSS?-father-OBL?
an
give
mame wambani wel-aba-me an
3 money 1SG.POSS?-father-OBL? give
‘She gave money to my father.’
Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.
References
- ^ Kimki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013).
- ^ New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River
- ^ Rumaropen, Benny. 2004. Sociolinguistic report on the varieties of the Kimki Language in the region southeast of Ji Mountain, Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.
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Papuan language families
(Palmer 2018 classification)
(Palmer 2018 classification)
subgroups
| Central Papua, Indonesia | |
|---|---|
| Southeast Papua, Indonesia | |
| Southwest Papua New Guinea | |
| Central Papua New Guinea | |
| Papuan Peninsula |
families and isolates
families and isolates
families and isolates
families and isolates
families and isolates
| Torricelli subgroups | |
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| Sepik subgroups | |
| Ramu subgroups |
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families and isolates
families and isolates
isolate
- West Papuan
- Northwest Papuan
- South Pauwasi
- East Papuan
- Southeast Papuan
- Papuan Gulf
- Binanderean–Goilalan
- Arai–Samaia
- Asmat–Mombum
- Trans-Fly–Bulaka River
- Trans-Fly
- Dani–Kwerba
- East Bird's Head – Sentani
- Kwomtari–Fas
- Left May – Kwomtari
- Tor–Kwerba–Nimboran
- West Trans–New Guinea
- West Papuan Highlands
- Central and South New Guinea
- Central West New Guinea
- East New Guinea Highlands
- Yele – West New Britain
- Sepik–Ramu
- Indo-Pacific
