====== Bamgi Awyu ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
**[under construciton]**

===== Sources =====
Drabbe (1950) grammar notes and (pp. 131-142) 408 comparative terms for Jénimu

Drabbe (1954: 231-255) 100 comparative terms for Jénimu

Drabbe (1959:162-181) 431 comparative terms for Jénimu

Lebold, Kriens and de Vries (2010: 46-52) 97 comparative terms for Salamepe village

Lebold, Kriens and Susanto (2013: 36-47) 239 comparative terms for Yeloba and Konebi (Jas) villages and (pp. 48-50) 60 comparative terms for Banamepe and Konebi (Homeme)

===== Phonology =====
**[under construction]**

===== Pronouns =====
Drabbe (1950: 99-102) gives Jénimu pronouns in two case forms as follows:

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|     |nominative|possessive|
|1 sg.|nu        |na        |
|2 sg.|gu        |ga        |
|3 sg.|ewi, egi  |wa        |
|1 pl.|nugu      |'niga     |
|2 pl.|gugu      |'giga     |
|3 pl.|joɣo      |'jaɣa     |

===== Counting system =====
Drabbe (1950: 104-105) gives six numbers for Jénimu as follows:

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|1 |i'ʃo         |
|2 |okum         |
|3 |okum-i'ʃo    |
|4 |okum-okum    |
|5 |bed-afi-ko'mɛ|
|10|sɛ           |

According to Drabbe, /bed-afi/ in the term for "five" means "one hand."

===== Verbal morphology =====
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