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WaremboriLanguage

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warembori language

The WaremboriLanguage is a LowerMamberamoLanguage of Indonesia (Irian Jaya). SIL code: WSA. ISO 639-2: paa. Population: 600 (1998 SIL). Region: North coast, mouth of Mamberamo River and west to Poiwai, villages of Warembori, Tamakuri, and Bonoi. Alternate names: WARENBORI, WAREMBOIVORO. Comments: Close to Yoke. About 33% lexical similarity with Yoke, and about 30% resembles Austronesian. Most are proficient in Irianese Malay. Indonesian and Yoke also spoken. Most are 20 and older, but there are speakers below 20. About 20 people use it as their second or third language. Much typology resembles Austronesian. Dictionary. SVO, prepositions, genitives before noun heads, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads, 1 prefix, 6 or more suffixes on a word, word order distinguishes subject, object, indirect object, topic (SVO) is for pragmatic salience, affixes do not indicate case of noun phrase, obligatory subject agreement, optional object agreement shown by verb affixes, the scope of a serialized quantifier shows a trace of ergativity, causative shown by verbs 'make' and 'give', CV, nontonal. Literacy rate in second language: 30% in Indonesian. Swamp. Riverine. Swidden agriculturalists. Sea level. Christian.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	lower mamberamo language	A LowerMamberamoLanguage is either of two closely related languages, spoken in Indonesia (Irian Jaya), forming a distinct family of languages that are unrelated to any others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	spoken human language	A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
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