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Numbami (also known as Siboma or Sipoma) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 300 people with ties to a single village
in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Numbami is a phonologically conservative isolate within the Huon Gulf languages, and
is the last Austronesian language on the south coast of the Huon Gulf. Its nearest relatives along the coast to the southeast
are 270 km away, Maisin and Arifama-Miniafia in Oro Province (Northern Province in the former colony of Papua). The word order
typology of Numbami and the Huon Gulf languages is subject–verb–object (SVO), which is typical of Austronesian languages;
while that of Arifama-Miniafia and most of the Papuan Tip languages is subject–object–verb (SOV), which is typical of Papuan
languages. Maisin has been characterized as a mixed language, with both Austronesian and Papuan features that obscure its
primary heritage, and it is likely (but unprovable) that settlements of Austronesian speakers along the 270 km of coast were
gradually absorbed into inland communities speaking Papuan languages. |
Names (more)[en] Numbami language[fr] Numbami |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : sijLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sijhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:sij More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: sijFreebase ISO 639-3 : sij GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |