Doso language
Doso is a language of New Guinea. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative.[2] It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.
| Doso | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (700 cited 1973)[1] |
Papuan Gulf ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dol |
| Glottolog | doso1239 |
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986),[3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[4]
gloss Doso head abaki hair abuluso ear apu eye usa nose bulu tooth da tongue ithi leg sʌřei louse amu dog khasa pig nɛna bird sɩkĩ egg wõnõ blood omani bone khi skin bʌli breast toka tree gu man haimo woman dobo sun khikha moon ři water umu fire dɩki stone kɔ name samu eat nane
References
- Doso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Doso". Glottolog 4.3.
- Shaw, R.D. "The Bosavi language family". In Laycock, D., Seiler, W., Bruce, L., Chlenov, M., Shaw, R.D., Holzknecht, S., Scott, G., Nekitel, O., Wurm, S.A., Goldman, L. and Fingleton, J. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 24. A-70:45-76. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1986. doi:10.15144/PL-A70.45
- Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
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