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Burum language

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Burum
Mindik
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionHuon Peninsula,Morobe Province
Native speakers
9,000 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Somba
  • Siawari
Language codes
ISO 639-3bmu
Glottologburu1306

Burum(also known asYakngeorSomba-Siawariafter its two dialects andMindikin the language itself) is aPapuan languagespoken inMorobe Province,Papua New Guinea.Its closest related language isBorong(also known asKosorong).[2]

Orthography[edit]

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Uppercaseletters A B D E F G H I J K L M N Ŋ O P Q R S T U W Gw Y Z Ö
Lowercaseletters a b d e f g h i j k l m n ŋ o p q r s t u w gw y z ö
IPA /ɑ/ /b/ /d/ /e/ /f/ /ɡ/ /ɣ/ /i/ /dz/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ŋ/ /o/ /p/ // /r/ /s/ /t/ /u/ /w/ // /j/ /t͡s/ /ə/

References[edit]

  1. ^BurumatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
  2. ^"Bulum River - newguineaworld".Archived fromthe originalon 2023-01-20.
  3. ^Olkkonen, Soini (1994),Organised Phonology Data(PDF),archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2018-07-10,retrieved2018-07-10

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