Pal
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
Pal, also known as Abasakur, is spoken by approximately 760 people (1975) living in eight villages around and east of the headwaters of the Omosa river in the Madang district of Papua New Guinea's Madang province. Abasakur is the name of two Pal-speaking villages. Its nearest relative is Kobol (Koguman) spoken immediately to the east (Z'graggen 1975: 28, q.v. p. 3.)
Sources
Z'graggen (1980: 1-159) 304 comparative terms and (p. 164) pronominal paradigms for Abasakur
Phonology
[under construction]
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Pronouns
Z'graggen (1980: 164) gives pronouns for Abasakur in three case forms as follows:
| nominative | possessive | verbal object | |
| -ŋ/-g/-ŋot | -ŋ-əmp /-g-əp/-ŋot-əp | -Ø-/-g- | |
| 1 sg. | ŋa-ŋ | ŋa-ŋ-əmp | e- |
| 2 sg. | nə-ŋ | na-ŋ-əmp | nV- |
| 3 sg. | o-ŋ | o-ŋ-əmp | Ø- |
| 1 pl. | ga-g | ga-g-əp | ja- |
| 2 pl. | no-ŋot | no-ŋot-əp | ne- |
| 3 pl. | o-ŋot | o-ŋot-əp | Ø- |
Verbal morphology
No information about Pal verbal morphology is currently available to us.