Mundugumor language

Mundugumor (Munduguma, Mundukomo) Biwat is a Yuat language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Biwat village () of Yuat Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.

Phonology

Mundukumo consonants are:

Mundukumo vowels are:

Nouns

Some examples showing Mundukomo nouns and their irregular plural forms:

Similar patterns of complex nominal plural allomorphy are also found in the Lower Sepik-Ramu languages.

External links

• Paradisec has a collection of recordings of Biwat language. They also have a collection of recordings from Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific from Don Laycock that includes Biwat materials.

Further reading

• McDowell, Nancy. 1991. The Mundugumor: From the Fieldnotes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• McElvenny, James. 2007. Notes on Mundukumo. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.

References