Rema

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Rema is spoken by perhaps 10 people (2015) living in a single village, Wereaver, located on the east bank of the Bensbach river in the Morehead subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Western province, just east of the border with Indonesia's Papua province (Evans et al. forthcoming, q.v. Carroll 2014: 3, Döhler 2015: 3.) The term Rema [remʌ] means “why?” (q.v. Mittag in Carroll ed. 2015.) According to Evans et al., Rema is either moribund or extinct. Its nearest relative is Ngarna of Sota village across the border to the northwest.

Hull (1990) 100 comparative terms for Tonda of Wuriefer village

O'Rear (1991) 118 comparative terms for R̃ema of Wereave village

Mittag (2015) 374 comparative terms for Rema of Wereave village in Carroll ed. (2015)

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