Kemberano is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
of the
Bird's Head Peninsula
The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: ''Kepala Burung'', nl, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai''), is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces o ...
of
West Papua, Indonesia.
Morphology
Kemberano nouns are required to have the following concord suffixes:
*–''i'' (masculine nouns)
*–''o'' (feminine nouns)
Examples (from Berry and Berry 1987: 86):
References
Nuclear South Bird's Head languages
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