Kobol

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Situation

Kobol, also known as Koguman, is spoken by approximately 940 people (1975) living in eight villages east of the headwaters of the Omosa river in the Madang district of Papua New Guinea's Madang province. Koguman is the name of a Kobol-speaking village. Its nearest relative is Pal (Abasakur) spoken immediately to the west (Z'graggen 1975: 27, q.v. p. 3.)

Sources

Z'graggen (1980: 1-159) 315 comparative terms and (p. 164) pronominal paradigms for Koguman

Phonology

[under construction]

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Pronouns

Z'graggen (1980: 164) gives pronouns for Koguman in three ccase forms as follows:

	nominative	possessive	verbal object
	-ŋ/-g	-ŋ-ɛr/-ŋ-or /-g-ɛr/-g-or	-Ø-/-g-
1 sg.	ɛ-ŋ	ɛ-ŋ-ɛr	ɛ-
2 sg.	no-ŋ	no-ŋ-or	nV-
3 sg.	wo-ŋ	o-ŋ-or	Ø-
1 pl.	ɛ-g	i-g-ɛr	ja-(g)-
2 pl.	no-g	jo-g-or	jo-(g)-
3 pl.	wo-g	wo-g-or	wo-(g)-

Verbal morphology

No information about Kobol verbal morphology is currently available to us.