====== Kais ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
Kais, also known as Kampong Baru, is spoken by 600 people (2004) living in a single village, Kais or Kampong Baru, along the Kais river in the southern portion of the Bird's Head peninsula in Indonesia's West Papua province (Voorhoeve 1975: 34, Berry and Berry 1987: 92, 98, de Vries 2004: 129.) The term Kais /kais-o/ means “person.”

===== Sources =====
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===== Phonology =====
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There is no published phonology of Kais. From comparison to other Central South Bird's Head languages, we can posit … consonants and … vowels as follows:\\
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===== Pronouns =====
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===== Verbal morphology =====
Nothing is known about Kais verbal morphology.\\
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