Kapori language

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Kapori
Kapauri
RegionPapua: Pagai village, Kamikaru and Magri hamlets on north bank of upper Idenburg River
Native speakers
200 (2006)[1]
Language family
Foja Range
Language codes
ISO 639-3khp
Glottologkapo1250
ELPKapori

Kapori (Kapauri) is a Papuan language of Pagai village in Airu District, Jayapura Regency, Papua, Indonesia.

Vocabulary[]

The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),[2] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[3]

gloss Kapauri
head aure
hair su
eye hukwani
tooth wano
leg tie
louse usa
dog unu
bird irini
egg hwini
blood kumu
bone uw
skin ufunu
tree tretaro
man inaptei
sun niki
water bu
fire sene
stone liti
name witini
eat taro
one kakua
two nafrine

Further reading[]

  • Rumaropen, Benny. 2006. Survey Report on the Kapauri Language of Papua, Indonesia. Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.

References[]

  1. ^ Kapori at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Voorhoeve, C.L. Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. B-31, iv + 133 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. doi:10.15144/PL-B31
  3. ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.


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