Mundugumor (Munduguma, Mundukomo) Biwat is a
Yuat language of
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 ...
. It is spoken in Biwat village () of
Yuat Rural LLG,
East Sepik Province.
Phonology
Mundukumo consonants are:
:
Nouns
Some examples showing Mundukomo nouns and their irregular plural forms:
:
Similar patterns of complex nominal plural allomorphy are also found in the
Lower Sepik-Ramu languages.
External links
*
Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
has a collection of recordings o
Biwat language They also have a collection of recordings from Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific from
Don Laycock tha
includes Biwat materials
Further reading
*McDowell, Nancy. 1991. ''The Mundugumor: From the Fieldnotes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune''. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
*McElvenny, James. 2007. ''Notes on Mundukumo''. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
References
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea
Yuat languages
Languages of East Sepik Province