Ngarna
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
Ngarna (Ngkrn) is spoken by approximately 120 people (1996) living in a single village, Sota, located in Indonesia's Papua province, just west of the border with Papua New Guinea's Western province (Donohue 1996: 7, 20-21, Evans et al. forthcoming, q.v. Carroll 2014: 3, Döhler 2015: 3.) Its nearest relative is Rema of Wereaver village on the east bank of the Bensbach river across the border to the southeast.
Sources
Flint (1916) (unobtained)
Lambden (1926) (unobtained)
Williams (1936: 30-31) 7 comparative terms for Kubirikar after Flint (1916) and Lambden (1926)
Donohue (1996: 18-50) 162 comparative terms for Ngkrn of Sota (Sâta) village
Sohn, Lebold and Kriens (2009: 31-42) 150 comparative terms for Sota Kanum of Sota village
Mittag (2015) 373 comparative terms for Ngarna of Sota village in Carroll ed. (2015)
Phonology
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Pronouns
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Verbal morphology
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