Dem | |
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Lem | |
Region | Papua: Western highlands along Rouffaer River headwaters |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1987)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dem |
Glottolog | demm1245 |
ELP | Dem |
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Map: The Dem language of New Guinea
The Dem language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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Dem (Lem, Ndem) is a divergent Papuan languageofWest New Guinea. Although Palmer (2018) leaves it unclassified,[2] it was tentatively included in the Trans–New Guinea family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), and Timothy Usher ties it most closely to Amung.[3]
The only pronouns which have been recorded are:
singular | plural | |
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1st person | nau | yu |
2nd person | aŋ |
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),[4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5]
gloss | Dem |
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head | yagabuak |
hair | ari; yakuli |
eye | eŋgio |
tooth | yavkasa |
leg | abuo |
louse | nduu |
dog | kwa |
pig | uwam; uwom |
bird | bela |
egg | au; onde |
blood | miet |
skin | aran; asi |
tree | niye |
man | ŋo |
sun | uweməja |
water | da; yat |
fire | kunu |
stone | (da)ŋat |
name | aluŋ; gago |
eat | nenawe |
one | yagaŋ |
two | ugwaŋ |
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