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Urim language

Torricelli language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Urim is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Kalp; dialects are Kukwo, Yangkolen. There is a grammatical description by Hemmilä and Luoma (2009).[2]

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Phonology

Urim has vowel length contrast, but only for monosyllabic words. Urim also has the prestopped nasals /pm/, /tn/, and /kŋ/.[3]

Urim minimal pairs with short and long vowels:[3]

  • waŋ ‘time’, waːŋ ‘tree trunk’
  • hen ‘wild sago’, heːn ‘outside’

Pre-stopped nasals contrast with non-pre-stopped nasals:[3]

  • wak ‘species of plant’, waŋ ‘time’, wakŋ ‘fire’
  • yat ‘enough’, yan ‘father’, hatn ‘walk’
  • lim ‘nose’, kipm ‘you (pl)’
  • melp ‘wasp’, yelm ‘earthquake’, walpm ‘liver’
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Pronouns

Pronouns are:[3]

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Like the Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, Urim (as well as Kombio) distinguishes dual and paucal pronouns.[3]

References

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