Social:Turumsa language

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Short description: Papuan language of Papua New Guinea
Turumsa
RegionPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
5 (2002)e25
Possibly extinct (2011)[1]
Papuan Gulf ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3tqm
Glottologturu1250[2]

Turumsa is a possibly extinct Papuan language of Makapa village ( [ ⚑ ] 7°56′16″S 142°34′34″E / 7.937872°S 142.576135°E / -7.937872; 142.576135 (Makapa)) in Gogodala Rural LLG, Middle Fly District, Papua New Guinea.[1][3] It has been classified as a Bosavi language, and is 19% lexically similar with Dibiyaso, but this appears to be due to loans. It has a greater (61%) lexical similarity with Doso, its only clear relative.[4]

There were only five elderly speakers found in 2002. Today, most people in Makapa village speak Dibiyaso.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named e25
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Turumsa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/turu1250. 
  3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup. 
  4. "Turumsa". Glottolog 4.3. 2020. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/turu1250. 
  5. Palmer, Bill (2018). "Language families of the New Guinea Area". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 1-20. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.