Kimki language
{{Short description|Pauwasi language spoken in Indonesia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Kimki
|nativename=Sukubatom
|states=Indonesia
|region=Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea
|speakers=500
|date=2004
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Pauwasi
|fam2=Yetfa – South Pauwasi
|fam3=South Pauwasi
|iso3=sbt
|glotto=kimk1238
|glottorefname=Kimki
}}
Kimki (Aipki) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim. Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. [https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]. found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).[https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/pauwasi-river/yetfa-south-pauwasi-river/south-pauwasi-river New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River]
Pronouns
Basic vocabulary
Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The languages of Northwest New Guinea |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=433–568 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}
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|+ Kimki basic vocabulary ! gloss !! Kimki | |
| ‘bird’ | ã |
| ‘blood’ | afupla |
| ‘bone’ | kwal |
| ‘breast’ | mua |
| ‘ear’ | bwa |
| ‘eat’ | auko |
| ‘egg’ | im |
| ‘eye’ | ẽ |
| ‘fire’ | kamop |
| ‘give’ | an |
| ‘go’ | bi ~ kaik |
| ‘ground’ | nim |
| ‘hair’ | it |
| ‘hear’ | fas |
| ‘leg’ | up |
| ‘louse’ | nim |
| ‘man’ | ap |
| ‘moon’ | lokaya |
| ‘name’ | aip ~ mi |
| ‘one’ | amatri |
| ‘road, path’ | bagin |
| ‘see’ | weː |
| ‘sky’ | fim |
| ‘stone’ | kwil |
| ‘sun’ | bwakaya |
| ‘tongue’ | albak |
| ‘tooth’ | luː |
| ‘tree’ | maul |
| ‘two’ | alas |
| ‘water’ | dɪ |
| ‘woman’ | kiam |
Sentences
Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):Rumaropen, Benny. 2004. Sociolinguistic report on the varieties of the Kimki Language in the region southeast of Ji Mountain, Papua, Indonesia. (in Indonesian). Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia.
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|warime mame aik
|yesterday 3 come
|‘He came yesterday.’}}
{{interlinear|number=(2)
|mame mambak me bi
|3 village OBL go
|‘She went to the village.’}}
{{interlinear|number=(3)
|mame kaes augo
|3 cooked.rice eat
|‘She eats cooked rice.’}}
{{interlinear|number=(4)
|mame wambani wel-aba-me an
|3 money 1SG.POSS?-father-OBL? give
|‘She gave money to my father.’}}
Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.
References
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