====== West Marind ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
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===== Sources =====
Guertjens (1933: 373-383) large vocabulary of Sangaseesch (Atih)

Drabbe (1955: 13-15) brief description of and (pp. 148-151) 98 comparative terms for Wester (West) and Atih dialects

Lebold, Kriens and de Vries (2010: 46-56) 240 comparative terms for Alaku, Ihalik, Kaptel and Sanggase villages and 69 comparative terms for Kaniskobat, Makaling, Nakias, Okaba, Poepe, Tagaepe and Wambi villages

===== Phonology =====
West Marind has 17 consonants and 5 vowels as follows:

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|  m   |  n   |      |      |     |
|  p   |  t   |      |  k   |     |
|  b   |  d   |      |  g   |     |
|  mb  |  nd  |      |  ŋg  |     |
|      |  s   |      |      |  h  |
|  hʷ  |  l   |  hʲ  |  ɣ   |     |


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

The main phonological difference between the Imah and Atih dialects is that Atih reflects velar non-stop /*ɣ/ as /ʕ/ [ʔ ø h].

Non-stops /hʷ hʲ/ reflect Marind /*w *j/.

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

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|        |West  |Atih  |
|1 sg.   |nok   |nok   |
|2 sg.   |oɣ    |o     |
|3 sg. m.|anep  |anep  |
|3 sg. f.|anup  |anup  |
|1 pl.   |nok ke|nok ke|
|2 pl.   |eoɣ   |eo    |
|3 pl.   |anip  |anip  |

No other case forms are available.

===== Verbal morphology =====
No information is available on West Marind verbal morphology.\\
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