Burum
Mindik
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionHuon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers
9,000 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Somba
  • Siawari
Language codes
ISO 639-3bmu
Glottologburu1306

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]

Orthography

[3]
Uppercase letters ABDEFGHIJKLMNŊOPQRSTUWGwYZÖ
Lowercase letters abdefghijklmnŋopqrstuwgwyzö
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/

References

  1. Burum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Bulum River - newguineaworld".
  3. Olkkonen, Soini (1994). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-07-10. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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