Turumsa language
| Turumsa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers |
5 (2002)[1] possibly extinct (2011) |
|
Doso–Turumsa
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tqm |
| Glottolog |
turu1250[2] |
Turumsa is a possibly extinct Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It has been classified as a Bosavi language, and is 19% lexically similar with the Bosavi language Dibiyaso, but this appears to be due to loans. It has a greater (61%) lexical similarity with Doso, its only clear relative.[2]
References
- ↑ Turumsa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Turumsa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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