Mor language (Papuan)
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Mor is a nearly extinct Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It is spoken along the Budidi River and the Bomberai River on the Bomberai Peninsula.


Classification

It may form a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate. However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2 ng pronouns ''na-'' and ''a-'': : Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf.


Nouns

Nominal inflection for number in Mor is limited to only certain animate nouns, such as ''mor'' ‘man’ and ''mor-ir'' ‘men’. Other nouns do not inflect for number, such as ''is'' ‘bird/birds’.


Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : A word list of Mor has also been collected by Johannes Anceaux.Smits, Leo and Clemens L. Voorhoeve. 1998. ''The J.C. Anceaux Collection of Wordlists of Irian Jaya Languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II)''. Leiden-Jakarta: Department of Cultures and Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania.


References


External links

* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Mor
{{Papuan languages Berau Gulf languages Languages of western New Guinea Endangered Papuan languages