Fasu language
(Redirected fromNamumi language)
| Fasu | |
|---|---|
| West Kutubuan | |
| Namo Me | |
| Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | (1,200 cited 1981)[1] (750 Fasu, 300 Namuni, 150 Some) |
Papuan Gulf?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | faa |
| Glottolog | fasu1242 |
| ELP | Fasu |
 Map: The Fasu language of New Guinea
The Fasu language
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Fasu,also known asNamo Me,is one of theKutubuan languagesofNew Guinea.
Varieties
[edit]Wurm and Hattori (1981) considered its three principal dialects, Fasu, Some and Namumi, to be three languages, which they called theWest Kutubuanfamily. However,Glottologand Usher consider Fasu to be a single language.
Classification
[edit]Fasu is not particularly close to the twoEast Kutubuan languages,though Usher reconfirms a connection.
Although Fasu has proto-TNG vocabulary,Malcolm Rossconsiders its traditional inclusion in TNG to be somewhat questionable. Other researchers agree.
Further reading
[edit]- Loeweke, Eunice and Jean May. 1980. General Grammar of Fasu (Namo me): Lake Kutubu, Southern Highlands Province. In Don Hutchisson (ed.),Grammatical studies in Fasu and Mt. Koiali,5–106. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, no. 27. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
[edit]- ^FasuatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
- Ross, Malcolm(2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". InAndrew 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.ISBN0858835622.OCLC67292782.
External links
[edit]- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World,Namo Me