Porome language

Not to be confused with Rumu language.
Porome
Kibiri
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Gulf Province, Kikori District, near Aird Hills, on several tributaries of Kikori River, villages of Tipeowo, Doibo, Paile, Babaguina, Ero, and Wowa.southern Papua New Guinea
Coordinates 7°27′S 144°17′E / 7.450°S 144.283°E / -7.450; 144.283
Native speakers
 1,200 (2011)[1]
Dialects
  • Porome
  • Kibiri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 prm
Glottolog kibi1239[2]

Map: The Porome language of New Guinea
  The Porome language (large bay, southern PNG)
  Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Porome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. There are over a thousand speakers.

Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages, there is no evidence for a connection apart from the pronouns 1sg amo and 2sg do.

The independent pronouns and subject suffixes to the verb are as follows:

sgdupl
1 amo, -meamó-kaiamó, -ke/-ki
2 do, -keaia-kaia, -ka
3 da, -a/-bVabo-kaiabo, -abo

References

  1. ↑ Porome at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kibiri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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