Mor | |
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Region | Fakfak Regency, West Papua |
Native speakers | 30 (2012)
[1] 70 semi-speakers (2012) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
moq |
Glottolog |
morb1239 |
ELP | Mor (Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesia) |
Map: The Mor language of New Guinea
The Mor language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited |
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. [2]
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. [3] However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2sg pronouns na- and a-:
sg | pl | |
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1 | na-ya | ne-a |
2 | a-ya | omase |
3 | mena | morimene |
Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf. [4]
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’. [2]: 97
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), [5] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: [6]
gloss | Mor |
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head | idura |
hair | sa |
eye | nana |
tooth | nasona |
leg | bana |
louse | twoa |
dog | afuna |
pig | bia |
bird | isa |
egg | utreta |
blood | wabmina |
bone | weten |
skin | gina |
tree | wara |
man | hiamia |
sun | seba |
water | sea |
fire | taha |
stone | puata |
name | inagenena |
eat | masmore |
one | nadu |
two | kin |
A word list of Mor has also been collected by Johannes Anceaux. [7]