karas, language, karas, divergent, trans, guinea, language, spoken, biggest, karas, islands, bomberai, peninsula, that, appears, most, closely, related, west, bomberai, languages, spoken, antalisa, villages, karas, island, karaskalamangregionwest, papuanative,. Karas is a divergent Trans New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the Karas Islands off the Bomberai Peninsula that appears to be most closely related to the West Bomberai languages It is spoken in Antalisa and Mas villages on Karas Island 2 KarasKalamangRegionWest PapuaNative speakers100 2000 1 Language familyTrans New Guinea Berau GulfWest BomberaiKarasLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code kgv class extiw title iso639 3 kgv kgv a Glottologkara1499ELPKarasKaras is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World s Languages in DangerKarasShow map of Western New GuineaKarasShow map of IndonesiaKarasShow map of Southeast AsiaCoordinates 3 28 S 132 41 E 3 47 S 132 68 E 3 47 132 68 Contents 1 Pronouns 2 References 3 Sources 4 External linksPronouns EditCowan 1953 records the following pronouns for Karas singular dual plural1stperson exclusive aan inir piridokinclusive aantemu 2nd person kame kijumene3rd person mame mjeir mubameirVisser 2020 records the following pronouns for Karas of Maas village Free nominative singular dual plural1stperson exclusive an in ier ininclusive pi er pi2nd person ka ki er ki3rd person ma m ier mu Free possessive singular plural1stperson exclusive aŋ gon pi ninclusive iŋ gon2nd person ka in ki n3rd person ma in mu in Possessive suffix singular plural1stperson exclusive an pe p ininclusive un2nd person tʃa tʃe3rd person un unThe free possessives and possessive suffixes can occur together 3 References Edit UNESCO Atlas of the World s Languages in danger www unesco org Retrieved 2018 08 18 Karas language at Ethnologue 25th ed 2022 Visser Eline 2020 A Grammar of Kalamang The Papuan Language of the Karas Islands PhD thesis Lund University Sources EditCowan H K J 1953 Voorlopige Resultaten van een Ambtelijk Taalonderzoek in Nieuw Guinea in Dutch s Gravenhage Martinus Nijhoff Visser Eline 2016 A Grammar Sketch of Kalamang with a Focus on Phonetics and Phonology Master thesis University of Oslo urn nbn no 54973 Visser Eline 2020 A Grammar of Kalamang The Papuan Language of the Karas Islands PhD thesis Lund University Visser Eline 2021 Kalamang dictionary In Key Mary Ritchie amp Comrie Bernard eds The Intercontinental Dictionary Series Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology CLDF dataset Visser Eline 2022 A grammar of Kalamang Comprehensive Grammar Library 4 Berlin Language Science Press DOI 10 5281 zenodo 6499927 https langsci press org catalog book 344 Open Access External links EditTimothy Usher New Guinea World Kalamang This article about Trans New Guinea languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Karas language amp oldid 1136503847, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,