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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