Suarmin, or Asaba, is a

Sepik language The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have ...

spoken in

Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...

Papua-New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Alternative names are ''Asabano, Akiapmin, Duranmin''. '' Glottolog'' leaves it unclassified.

Pronouns

Pronouns are: :

Noun classes

In Asaba,

noun class In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some a ...

affixes are suffixed to nouns. There are five noun classes. Examples: : Class 1 is the default noun class. Modifying adjectives agree with head nouns in class:

References

{{Languages of Papua New Guinea Definitely endangered languages Papi–Asaba languages Languages of Sandaun Province Language isolates of New Guinea