Kimki language

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.

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]
Language family	Pauwasi Yetfa – South Pauwasi South Pauwasi Kimki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sbt
Glottolog	kimk1238
ELP	Kimki

An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller 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

Pronouns are:^[2]

Kimki independent pronouns

	sg	pl
1	win	name
2	fume	same
3	mame

Basic vocabulary

Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):^[2]

Kimki basic vocabulary

gloss	Kimki
‘bird’	ã
‘blood’	afupla
‘bone’	kwal
‘breast’	mua
‘ear’	bwa
‘eat’	auko
‘egg’	im
‘eye’	ẽ
‘fire’	kamop
‘give’	an
‘go’	bi ~ kaik
‘ground’	nim
‘hair’	it
‘hear’	fas
‘leg’	up
‘louse’	nim
‘man’	ap
‘moon’	lokaya
‘name’	aip ~ mi
‘one’	amatri
‘road, path’	bagin
‘see’	weː
‘sky’	fim
‘stone’	kwil
‘sun’	bwakaya
‘tongue’	albak
‘tooth’	luː
‘tree’	maul
‘two’	alas
‘water’	dɪ
‘woman’	kiam

Sentences

Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):^[5][2]

(1)

warime

yesterday

mame

3

aik

come

warime mame aik

yesterday 3 come

‘He came yesterday.’

(2)

mame

3

mambak

village

me

OBL

bi

go

mame mambak me bi

3 village OBL go

‘She went to the village.’

(3)

mame

3

kaes

cooked.rice

augo

eat

mame kaes augo

3 cooked.rice eat

‘She eats cooked rice.’

(4)

mame

3

wambani

money

wel-aba-me

1SG.POSS?-father-OBL?

an

give

mame wambani wel-aba-me an

3 money 1SG.POSS?-father-OBL? give

‘She gave money to my father.’

Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.