Karas language

Karas
Kalamang
Region West Papua
Native speakers
(240 cited 1983)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kgv
Glottolog kara1499[2]

Karas is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the Karas Islands off the Bomberai Peninsula, that appears to be most closely related to the West Bomberai languages.

Pronouns

Cowan (1953) records the following pronouns for Karas.

SG DU PL
1 aan inir piridok (exc.)
aantemu (?) (inc.)
2 kame ? kijumene
3 mame mjeir mubameir

References

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


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