Burum language

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Burum
Mindik
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
9,000 (2000 census) [1]
Dialects
  • Somba
  • Siawari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bmu
Glottolog buru1306

Burum (also known as Yaknge or Somba-Siawari after its two dialects and Mindik in the language itself) is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Its closest related language is Borong (also known as Kosorong). [2]

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Orthography

[3]
Uppercase lettersABDEFGHIJKLMNŊOPQRSTUWGwYZÖ
Lowercase lettersabdefghijklmnŋopqrstuwgwyzö
IPA /ɑ//b//d//e//f//ɡ//ɣ//i//dz//k//l//m//n//ŋ//o//p////r//s//t//u//w////j//t͡s//ə/

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References

  1. Burum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Bulum River - newguineaworld". Archived from the original on 2023-01-20.
  3. Olkkonen, Soini (1994), Organised Phonology Data (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10, retrieved 2018-07-10