https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-05-15T11:43:18+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/kikori-river/rumu-omati-river/rumu?rev=1719337266&do=diff Rumu Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Rumu, also called Kairi or Kibiri (not the same as Kibiri-Porome,) is spoken by over 700 people (1992) living along the middle reaches of Kikori River and its tributaries, inland from Kerewo of the Kiwai family and from Kibiri-Porome, in Papua New Guinea's Gulf province (Petterson 1992: 1.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/kikori-river/rumu-omati-river/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Rumu-Omati River Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The Rumu-Omati River family, also known as Turama-Kikorian, is comprised of four or five languages spoken along the Kikori, Omati and Turama Rivers in the western portion of Papua New Guinea's Gulf Province (Franklin 1973: 263-267.) Barikewa, Kaser and Mouwase are quite similar to one another, approaching mutual intelligibility (Petterson 2011: 4,) while Rumu is sharply distinct.