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Dineor language

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Maremgi
Dineor
Native toIndonesia
RegionWest Papua
Native speakers
55 (2006)[1]
Foja Range (Tor–Kwerba)
Language codes
ISO 639-3mrx
Glottologmare1261
ELPMaremgi

Maremgi, also known as Dineor, is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken near the village of Bonggo, west of Jayapura, in a place also known as Maremgi.[2]

Word lists

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English Dineor
cassowary jatram[3]
crocodile jarom
egg susu
father baba
fire msuram, msuruam
fish bore
house osa
man senase
moon fen
mother mama
pig dbua[4]
stone ewam
water fo

Numbers

1 abdina, afdikna[5]
2 nawe
3 nawesore
4 nawe-nawe
5 afatefafe
6 afatefa-abdina
7 afatefa-nawe
8 afatefa-nawesore
9 afatefa-nawenawe
10 nawe-tefafe

Note - The counting system in Dineor may extend to twenty.

References

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  1. ^ Maremgi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ United States of America. Defense Mapping Agency. (1982). Gazetteer of Indonesia: Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
  3. ^ "Dineor Swadesh List".
  4. ^ Voorhoeve, C.L. (1975). Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. Pacific Linguistics, B(31), 108. https://doi.org/10.15144/PL-B31
  5. ^ Max Planck Society, https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Dineor-Maremgi.htm, retrieved 28/04/2020