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Massep language
Massep (Masep, Potafa, Wotaf) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by fewer than 50 people in the single village of Masep in West Pantai District, Sarmi Regency, Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, however, language use is vigorous. It is surrounded by the Kwerba languages, namely Airoran and Samarokena.
Clouse, Donohue, and Ma (2002) did not notice connections to any other language family. Ethnologue, Glottolog, and Foley (2018) list it as a language isolate. Usher classifies it as Greater Kwerbic. The pronouns are not dissimilar from those of Trans–New Guinea languages, but Massep is geographically distant from that family.
Consonants:
Some probable consonant leniting sound changes from pre-Massep proposed by Foley (2018):
Vowels:
Pronouns are:
Massep case suffixes as quoted by Foley (2018) from Clouse (2002):
Massep sentences as quoted by Foley (2018) from Clouse (2002):
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Massep language
Massep (Masep, Potafa, Wotaf) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by fewer than 50 people in the single village of Masep in West Pantai District, Sarmi Regency, Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, however, language use is vigorous. It is surrounded by the Kwerba languages, namely Airoran and Samarokena.
Clouse, Donohue, and Ma (2002) did not notice connections to any other language family. Ethnologue, Glottolog, and Foley (2018) list it as a language isolate. Usher classifies it as Greater Kwerbic. The pronouns are not dissimilar from those of Trans–New Guinea languages, but Massep is geographically distant from that family.
Consonants:
Some probable consonant leniting sound changes from pre-Massep proposed by Foley (2018):
Vowels:
Pronouns are:
Massep case suffixes as quoted by Foley (2018) from Clouse (2002):
Massep sentences as quoted by Foley (2018) from Clouse (2002):