Kimki language
| Kimki | |
|---|---|
| Sukubatom | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 500 (2004)[1] |
Pauwasi
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sbt |
| Glottolog | kimk1238 |
| ELP | Kimki |
Kimki (Aipki[2]) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim.[2] Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by MĂŒller et al. (2013)[3] found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).[4]
Pronouns
[edit]Pronouns are:[2]
Kimki independent pronouns sg pl 1 win name 2 fume same 3 mame
Basic vocabulary
[edit]Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):[2]
Kimki basic vocabulary gloss Kimki âbirdâ ĂŁ âbloodâ afupla âboneâ kwal âbreastâ mua âearâ bwa âeatâ auko âeggâ im âeyeâ áșœ âfireâ kamop âgiveâ an âgoâ bi ~ kaik âgroundâ nim âhairâ it âhearâ fas âlegâ up âlouseâ nim âmanâ ap âmoonâ lokaya ânameâ aip ~ mi âoneâ amatri âroad, pathâ bagin âseeâ weË âskyâ fim âstoneâ kwil âsunâ bwakaya âtongueâ albak âtoothâ luË âtreeâ maul âtwoâ alas âwaterâ dÉȘ âwomanâ kiam
Sentences
[edit]Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):[5][2]
warime
yesterday
mame
3
aik
come
âHe came yesterday.â
mame
3
mambak
village
me
OBL
bi
go
âShe went to the village.â
mame
3
kaes
cooked.rice
augo
eat
âShe eats cooked rice.â
mame
3
wambani
money
wel-aba-me
1SG.POSS?-father-OBL?
an
give
âShe gave money to my father.â
Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.
References
[edit]- ^ Kimki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433â568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ MĂŒller, AndrĂ©, Viveka Velupillai, SĂžren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013).
- ^ New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River
- ^ Rumaropen, Benny. 2004. Sociolinguistic report on the varieties of the Kimki Language in the region southeast of Ji Mountain, Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.