Karas
Kalamang;
Trans-New Guinea; West Bomberai
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Speaker numbers as displayed here are unpublished (but see Eline Visser's forthcoming PhD thesis, A grammar of Kalamang). Info on other aspects discussed here can be found in Eline Visser's MA thesis: Visser, E. (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology (Master's thesis).
2019
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Indonesia
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Maas and Antalisa villages, the biggest of the Karas islands, West-Bomberai- Fakfak regency, West Papua province, Indonesia.
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Maas and Antalisa villages, the biggest of the Karas islands, West-Bomberai- Fakfak regency, West Papua province, Indonesia.
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Indonesian, Geser-Gorom, Uruangnirin
Indonesian for all contact with outsiders, people from mixed families (from Goromese or Uruangnirin-speaking villages) speak that with part of their family
Iha is not used as a trade language by Kalamang speakers. Many people claim to speak/understand neighbouring Uruangnirin, but any extensive communication (e.g. marriage negotiations) will be in Indonesian.
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More recent estimates place the speaker number closer to 100.
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Spoken on Karas Island, off the southwest coast of the Bomberai Peninsula, which is south of Bird’s Head Peninsula. The island is southeast of Fakfak.
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Spoken on Karas Island, off the southwest coast of the Bomberai Peninsula, which is south of Bird’s Head Peninsula. The island is southeast of Fakfak.
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(1983 SIL)
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