Kuman language (New Guinea)
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| Kuman | ||
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| Spoken in | Papua New Guinea | |
| Region | Simbu Province, from Kundiawa to beyond Kerowagi in the west and Gembogl in the north, at the foot of Mount Wilhelm | |
| Total speakers | 80,000 (1994) | |
| Language family | Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | paa | |
| ISO 639-3 | kue | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Kuman is a language of Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, also known as Simbu or Chimbu. As of 1994[update], it was spoken by about 80,000 people, 10,000 of which were monolinguals.
[edit] Grammar
Kuman is an SOV language.
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[edit] References
Hardie, Peter. 2003. Is Kuman Tonal? An account of basic segmental and tonological structure in the Papuan language Kuman. MA thesis: Australian National University
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