====== Kumbe Marind ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
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===== Sources =====
Drabbe (1955: 13-15) brief description and (pp. 148-151) 97 comparative terms for Kumb

Donohue (1996) 159 comparative terms for Sanayu village

===== Phonology =====
Kumbe River Marind has 16 consonants and 5 vowels as follows:

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|  m   |  n   |     |      |     |
|  p   |  t   |     |  k   |     |
|  b   |  d   |     |  g   |     |
|  mb  |  nd  |     |  ŋg  |     |
|      |  s   |     |      |  h  |
|  v   |  ɾ   |  z  |      |     |


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

Apical non-stop /ɾ/ is written by Drabbe alternately as <r l>

There is no velar non-stop /ɣ/ because Marind /*ɣ/ has merged with /h.

Non-stops /v z/ reflect Marind /*w *j/.

===== Pronouns =====
Drabbe (1955: 150-151) gives Kumb nominative pronouns as follows, with third person forms distinguished from one another by gender ablaut:

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|1 sg.   |nok   |
|2 sg.   |oh    |
|3 sg. m.|anep  |
|3 sg. f.|anup  |
|1 pl.   |nok ke|
|2 pl.   |eoh   |
|3 pl.   |anip  |

No other case forms are available.

===== Verbal morphology =====
No information is available on Kumbe River verbal morphology.\\
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