Sause

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Sause, also known as Bara, is spoken by approximately 300 people (1978) living in seven villages in the Foja mountains in the Kaureh district of Indonesia's Papuan province. These villages are nearly deserted for portions of the year as the Sause are hunter-gatherers. They are in close contact with speakers of Orya to the northeast and Kaure to the southeast, the Witi village including Orya speakers while the Bogogo, Abun (Abo) and Puarai villages includie Kaure speakers. Sause is the name of a village in which the language is spoken (Barr and Walker 1978: 6, 10) Wambaliau (2008) uses the language name Bara alongside Sause but does not explain what it means.

Voorhoeve (1975: 115) 23 comparative terms for Sause after Anceaux (n.d.)

Smits and Voorhoeve (1994: 18-266) 121 comparative terms for Sause after Anceaux (n.d.)

de Vries (1976) 175 comparative terms for Sause of Sause village

Walker (1978) 110 comparative terms for Sause of Sause and Ures villages

Barr and Walker (1978: 11-14) 110 comparative terms for Sause of Sause and Ures villages after Walker (1978)

Dommel (1985) 175 comparative terms for of Sause of Sebum/Lereh village

Wambaliau (2008) 251 comparative terms for Sause (Bara) of Sebum and Ures villages

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Wambaliau (2008: 2) give free pronouns for Sause (Bara) of Sebum and Ures villages as follows

The Sebum third person singular found also in Barr and Walker's Sause village [arok](1978: 13,) is also given as [aɭok] “that” (Wambaliau 2008: 4.)

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