====== Konorau ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
Konorau (Koneraw) is spoken in a single village on the south coast of Kolopom island (Voorhoeve 1975: 375,) surrounded on all sides by speakers of Kimaghama of the Kolopom family. Its nearest relative is the better-attested Mombum on Komolom island in the Muli Strait to the east.

===== Sources =====
Geurtjens (1933: 398-433) 455 comparative terms for Konerawsch

Susanto (2001) 238 comparative terms for Konorau (Waɣan)

===== Phonology =====
Comparative analysis allows us to propose 13 consonants and 5 vowels for Konorau as follows:

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|  m   |  n   |       |      |
|  p   |  t   |   s   |  k   |
|  mb  |  nd  |  ndʒ  |  ŋg  |
|      |  r   |   z   |  ɣ   |


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|  i  |     |  u  |
|  e  |     |  o  |
|     |  a  |     |


===== Pronouns =====
Geurtjens (1933: 430-431) gives pronouns for Konerawsch as follows:

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|1 sg.|no      |
|2 sg.|ju      |
|3 sg.|uŋgumi  |
|1 pl.|ni      |
|2 pl.|imu     |
|3 pl.|[tonteː]|

Geurtjens' third person plural really means "all" (q.v. pp. 426-427.) The separability of the plural suffix on the second person is based upon comparison to Mombum (q.v. Drabbe 1950: 562.) No case forms are given.

===== Verbal morphology =====
Nothing is known about Konorau verbal morphology.\\
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