Kamula language
| Kamula | |
|---|---|
| Wawoi | |
| Region | Western Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (1,100 cited 2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea or unclassified
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xla |
| Glottolog | kamu1260 |
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| File:Kamula language.svg Map: The Kamula language of New Guinea
The Kamula language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
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Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified.[2]
Demographics
[edit | edit source]Kamula is spoken in two widely separated areas,[2]: 80 including in Kamiyami village of the Wawoi Falls area in Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[3]
Routamaa (1994: 7) estimates that there are about 800 speakers of Kamula located in 3 villages in Western Province, with no dialectal differences reported.[4] This is because the Kamula had originally lived in camps near Samokopa in the northern area, but a group had split off and moved to Wasapea in the south only around 50 years ago.[5]: 14
- Kesiki, at Wawoi Falls in Bamu Rural LLG (main village) (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.)
- Samokopa in Bamu Rural LLG (one day's walk from Kesiki) (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.)
- Wasapea (Kamiyami[6]) in Gogodala Rural LLG (seven days' walk, or 90 km to the south of Kesiki) (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.)[7]
In the northern villages of Kesiki and Samokopa, Kamula children were reported as preferring to speak Doso over Kamula. A minority of Kamula people in the northern area also live in Dibiyaso-speaking villages, where they are multilingual in Kamula, Doso, and Dibiyaso. Kamula people in the southern village of Wasapea are also fluent in Gogodala.[6]
Classification
[edit | edit source]The little data that exists for Kamula pronouns does not fit in with the neighboring East Strickland or Bosavi languages (though 1sg nê likely reflects proto-TNG *na), so Kamula is best left as an unclassified language an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea pending further study.
Attested pronouns are 1sg nɛ̃, 2sg wɛ̃, and ̩pl diɛ.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Kamula phonology:[8]
Consonants
[edit | edit source]Kamula has 12 consonants.
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plosive | p | t̪ | d | k ɡ | ||
| nasal | m | n | ||||
| fricative | s | h | ||||
| approximant | w | j | ||||
| lateral approximant | l |
Vowels
[edit | edit source]Kamula has 7 vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| close | i | u | |
| close-mid | e | o | |
| open-mid | ɛ ⟨a꞉⟩ | ɔ ⟨o꞉⟩ | |
| open | a |
Vocabulary
[edit | edit source]The following basic vocabulary words are from Dutton (2010),[9] Reesink (1976),[10] and Shaw (1986),[11] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[12]
gloss Kamula head dokupala; tɔkɔnʌlʌ hair kokosasi; kɔkɔsʌse ear molo; mɔlɔ eye inʌma; inoma nose mu; mũ tooth ɛpe tongue te; tɛ leg ɛtɛ; hetei louse iyʌ; iya dog ɛsemala; esemʌlʌ pig ʌľiʌ bird tea egg temoko; temɔkɔ blood umali; umʌ:li bone ɛľu; ɛro skin kapala; kʌpʌlʌ breast mɛmɛ tree dali; tʌli man ɔpɔlʌimi; opřami woman eya; ɛ̃yã sun sali; sʌľi moon mama; mʌmʌ water yu fire deľʌpʌ; dřaƀa stone ewʌľʌ; yawařa road, path api name hi eat dampřoma; tʌɛdɔma one hatropɛ; hʌtɔlɔp two dapiamɛtɛ; depiʌmɛtɛ
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Kamula at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
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- ^ Routamaa, Judy. 1994. Kamula grammar essentials.
- ^ Routamaa, Judy. 1997. Orthography paper Kamula, Western province.
- ^ a b Routamaa, Iska and Judy Routamaa. 1996. Dialect survey report of the Kamula language, Western province.
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- ^ Routamaa, Judy. 1995. Kamula phonology essentials.
- ^ Dutton, Tom E. 2010. Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The history of a Papuan language family. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- ^ Reesink, Ger. 1976. Languages of the Aramia River Area. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- ^ Shaw, R.D. "The Bosavi language family". In Laycock, D., Seiler, W., Bruce, L., Chlenov, M., Shaw, R.D., Holzknecht, S., Scott, G., Nekitel, O., Wurm, S.A., Goldman, L. and Fingleton, J. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 24. A-70:45-76. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1986. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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