Doso is a language of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct
Turumsa language, its only clear relative. It is spoken near
Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
:
References
Doso–Turumsa languages
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