- Source: Morori language
Morori (Marori, Moaraeri, Moraori, Morari) is a moribund Papuan language of the Kolopom branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It is separated from the other Kolopom languages by the intrusive Marind family. All speakers use Papuan Malay or Indonesian as L2, and many know Marind.
A dialect extinct in 1997, Menge, is remembered from ceremonial use.
Marori is spoken in Kampung Wasur, which in 2010 had 413 people (98 families) total and 119 Marori people (52 Marori families).
Phonology
Marori has 22 consonants and 6 vowels, which are:
Vowels
i, e, æ, a, o, u
On the other hand, the majority of Trans-New Guinea languages usually have around 10–15 consonants.
Pronouns
Pronouns, but little else, connect it to TNG:
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
Evolution
Marori reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:
mam ‘breast’ < *amu
mam ‘mother’ < *am(a,i)
nemeŋk ‘louse’ < *niman
sa ‘sand’ < *sa(ŋg,k)asiŋ
ŋwar ‘bone’ < *kondaC
Further reading
Gebze, Wilhelmus and Mark Donohue. 1998. Kamus Kecil Bahasa Moraori. [Marori picture dictionary]: Distributed in Wasur, Papua.
References
Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
Arka, I Wayan. 2012. Projecting morphology and agreement in Marori, an isolate of southern New Guinea. In Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (eds.), Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century, 150-173. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
External links
ELAR Collection: The Endangered Papuan Languages of Merauke-Indonesia: ethnobiological and linguistic documentation deposited by I Wayan Arka
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bahasa Morori
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bahasa Banjar
- Bahasa Bengkulu
- Bahasa Melayu Riau
- Bahasa Sunda
- Bahasa Batak Mandailing
- Bahasa Melayu Bacan
- Bahasa Pamona
- Bahasa Tae’
- Morori language
- Mok (disambiguation)
- List of endangered languages in Indonesia
- Proto-Trans–New Guinea language
- Indonesian language
- Malay language
- Sundanese language
- Languages of Indonesia
- Malayic languages
- Javanese language
