Busa language (Papuan)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other Template:GeoGroupTemplate The Busa language, also known as Odiai (Uriai), is spoken in three hamlets of northwestern Papua New Guinea.[1] There were 244 speakers at the time of the 2000 census. One of the hamlets where Busa is spoken is Busa (Template:Coord) in Rawei ward, Green River Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[2]
Busa speakers are in extensive trade and cultural contact with Yadë, a distantly related language spoken in six villages to the north of the Busa area.[1]
Classification
Busa may be one of the Kwomtari languages. Foley (2018) classifies Busa as a language isolate (meaning unclassified), but does not exclude the possibility that it may have a distant relationship with the Torricelli languages.[1]
Pronouns
Pronouns are:[1]
Busa basic pronouns sg pl 1 mu mi 2 am 3m a ~ ari ti 3f tu
Basic vocabulary
Busa basic vocabulary listed in Foley (2018):[1]
Busa basic vocabulary gloss Busa ‘bad’ buriambu ‘bird’ wana ‘black’ baro ‘breast’ nã ‘ear’ dina ‘eye’ dena ‘fire’ eβa ‘leaf’ iri ‘liver’ munã ‘louse’ amo ‘man’ nutu ‘mother’ mẽ ‘nape’ onaiba ‘older brother’ aba ‘road’ ti ‘stone’ bito ‘tooth’ wuti ‘tree’ nda ‘water’ ani ‘woman’ ele ‘one’ otutu ‘two’ tinana ‘three’ wunana ‘four’ aite ‘five’ yumnadi
The following basic vocabulary words are from Conrad and Dye (1975),[3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[4]
gloss Busa head owuna hair etete ear dinʌ eye dena nose wʌti tooth wuti tongue dʌgʌrʌ louse amo dog inʌri pig waru bird wʌnʌ egg mʌiyʌ blood aɔ̨ bone ab̶uwibʌ skin tati breast ną tree nda man nutu woman tɔ water ani stone bitɔ road, path ti eat muniʌren one otutu two tinʌnʌ
Affixes
Busa subject agreement affixes are:[1]
Busa subject agreement affixes sg pl 1 ma- ma- 2 a- a- 3 m _r_- m- 3 f _w_-
The Busa possessive suffix -ni is also found in proto-Sepik as the dative suffix *ni, as well as in Ama, a Left May language.[1]
References
External links
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- ↑ Conrad, R. and Dye, W. "Some Language Relationships in the Upper Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea". In Conrad, R., Dye, W., Thomson, N. and Bruce Jr., L. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 18. A-40:1-36. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. Script error: No such module "doi".
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