Mbahaam
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
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Mbahaam (Bahaam, Baham, Mbahám) is spoken by between 700 and 1,000 people (1987) living in two enclaves in the north and south of the Onin peninsula, the northwesternmost portion of the Bomberai peninsula on the southwest coast of the Berau gulf … Kokas and … subdistricts of Fakfak regency in Indonesia's West Papua province. … Kinam, Mbahám Ndandara, Woos and Warému villages in the north… Sanggram village in the south … now-abdandoned villages of Wanggasten and Rombena in the highlands … (Flassy 1987: CITE, Cottet 2015: 2, 9-14)
Sources
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Galis (1955) comparative vocabulary for Báham
Anceaux (1956) (unobtained)
Anceaux (1958) … comparative terms for …
Smits and Voorhoeve (1998: 22-233) comparative vocabularies for Horabena (Baham) after Woelders, Mambunibuni after van Beek, Patimuni after an unspecified source and an unspecified variety of Baham after Anceaux
Voorhoeve (1975: 101-102) 40 comparative terms for Baham after Anceaux
Flassy, Ruhukael and Rumbrawer (1984) grammar of Mbahaam of Sanggram village
Flassy, Ruhukael and Rumbrawer (1987) phonology and (pp. 108-148) extensive comparative vocabulary for Bahaam of Sanggram village
Flassy (2002) Mbahaam inflections (unobtained)
Husin (2009) Baham morphology (unobtained)
Cottet (2015) phonology of Mbahám
Phonology
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Cottet (2015: 51-52) gives 20 consonants and 5 vowels for Mbahám as follows:
| m | n | ŋ | |||
| p | t̪ | k | kʷ | ||
| b | d | g | |||
| mb | nd | ŋg | ŋgʷ | ||
| s | h | ||||
| l | |||||
| w | r | j |
| i | u | |
| e | o | |
| a |
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Pronouns
Flassy, Ruhukael and Rumbreawer (1987: 94-96) give pronouns for Mbahaam in three case forms as follows:
| subject | inalienable | alienable | |
| 1 sg. | an(-duː) | nɔ-m | nɛ maːn |
| 2 sg. | tɔ(u)w | tɔ-m | tɛ maːn |
| 3 sg. | kpʷaw | ka-m | ka maːn |
| 1 pl. | un(-duː) | ni-m | ni maːn |
| 2 pl. | ku-ju | ki-n | ku-ju maːn |
| 3 pl. | kinɛwaːt/maŋgaː | ki-m | kinɛwaːt maːn |
Verbal morphology
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