Karas is a divergent
Trans–New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the
Karas Islands off the
Bomberai Peninsula
Bomberai Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Bomberai), otherwise known as the Bird's Beak Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Paruh Burung), is located in the Western New Guinea region, opposite to and to the south of the Bird's Head Peninsula. To the west lies ...
, that appears to be most closely related to the
West Bomberai languages
The West Bomberai languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula of western New Guinea and in East Timor and neighboring islands of Indonesia.
Languages
Two of the languages of the mainland, Baham and Iha, are clos ...
. It is spoken in Antalisa and Mas villages on Karas Island.
Pronouns
Cowan (1953) records the following pronouns for Karas.
Visser (2020) records the following pronouns for Karas of Maas village:
The free possessives and possessive suffixes can occur together.
References
Sources
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* Visser, Eline. 2021
Kalamang dictionary In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) ''The
Intercontinental Dictionary Series
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (commonly abbreviated as IDS) is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages. The general editor of the database is Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary A ...
''. Leipzig:
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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.
CLDF dataset
* Visser, Eline. 2022. A grammar of Kalamang. (Comprehensive Grammar Library 4). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6499927 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/344 . Open Access.
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Kalamang
Languages of western New Guinea
Severely endangered languages
West Bomberai languages
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