Semimi

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Situation

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Semimi is spoken … Etna Bay …Kiruru and Warifi villages … in the Bird's Neck region of Indonesia's West Papua province (Peckham 1991: 150, 151.)

Sources

Anceaux (1956, 1958: 119-120) 10 comparative terms for Etna Bay

Anceaux (n.d.) comparative vocabulary of Etna Bay

Greenberg (n.d.) comparative vocabulary of Etna Bay after Anceaux (n.d.)

Voorhoeve (1975: 101) 40 comparative terms for Semimi after Anceaux (n.d.)

Peckham (1991: 173-180) 209 comparative terms for Semimi

Peckham unpublished survey vocabulary of Kiruru obtained in digitalized form from Paul Whitehouse via the Summer Institute of Linguistics

Walker and Peckham unpublished survey vocabulary of Semimi obtained in digitalized form from Paul Whitehouse via the Summer Institute of Linguistics

Hammarström unpublished survey vocabulary of Semimi (unobtained)

Phonology

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Pronouns

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Verbal morphology

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