West Marind
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
[under construction]
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Sources
Guertjens (1933: 373-383) large vocabulary of Sangaseesch (Atih)
Drabbe (1955: 13-15) brief description of and (pp. 148-151) 98 comparative terms for Wester (West) and Atih dialects
Lebold, Kriens and de Vries (2010: 46-56) 240 comparative terms for Alaku, Ihalik, Kaptel and Sanggase villages and 69 comparative terms for Kaniskobat, Makaling, Nakias, Okaba, Poepe, Tagaepe and Wambi villages
Phonology
West Marind has 17 consonants and 5 vowels as follows:
| m | n | |||
| p | t | k | ||
| b | d | g | ||
| mb | nd | ŋg | ||
| s | h | |||
| hʷ | l | hʲ | ɣ |
| i | u | |
| e | o | |
| a |
The main phonological difference between the Imah and Atih dialects is that Atih reflects velar non-stop /*ɣ/ as /ʕ/ [ʔ ø h].
Non-stops /hʷ hʲ/ reflect Marind /*w *j/.
Pronouns
Drabbe (1955: 150-151) gives nominative pronouns for West and Atih dialects as follows, with third person forms distinguished from one another by gender ablaut:
| West | Atih | |
| 1 sg. | nok | nok |
| 2 sg. | oɣ | o |
| 3 sg. m. | anep | anep |
| 3 sg. f. | anup | anup |
| 1 pl. | nok ke | nok ke |
| 2 pl. | eoɣ | eo |
| 3 pl. | anip | anip |
No other case forms are available.
Verbal morphology
No information is available on West Marind verbal morphology.