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Sumeri language

Sumeri
Tanah Merah
Region West Papua
Native speakers
(500 cited 1978)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog tana1288
Tanah Merah language.svg
Map: The Sumeri language of New Guinea
  The Sumeri language
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Sumeri or Sumerine (one of two Papuan languages also known as ) is a language spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula by about a thousand people.

In the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), Sumeri forms an independent branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It has also been linked to the Mairasi languages, but those do not share the TNG pronouns of Sumeri. The pronouns are:

There are no 3rd-person personal pronouns, only demonstratives. The pronouns appear to reflect pTNG *na 1sg, *ga 2sg, and *gi 2pl.


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