https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-05-22T09:02:35+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/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/kamoro?rev=1719337266&do=diff Kamoro Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Kamoro is spoken by approximately 9,000 people (1975) living around Yamur Lake and along the coast from the southeast shore of Etna Bay in the west to the Mukumuga River in the east in Indonesia's West Papua province (Voorhoeve 1975: 370.) Its nearest linguistic relative is Sempan immediately to the southeast. text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/sempan?rev=1719337266&do=diff Sempan Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Sempan is spoken by approximately 1,000 people (1975) living along the Otakwa, Inawka and Omawka Rivers, just inland of New Guinea's southwest coast in Indonesia's Papua province (Drabbe 1953: 87, Voorhoeve 1975: 372.) They are bordered by the Kamoro to the west, the Asmat to the east and southeast and to the north by impassable mountains. Sempan is attested solely by the works of Drabbe. text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Asmat-Kamoro Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The Asmat-Kamoro family consists of six languages spoken along the nearly the entirety of the southwestern coastal lowlands of New Guinea, from the southwest shore of Etna Bay in the northwest to just north of Kolopom island in the southeast.