Kwomtari language

Kwomtari
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
(600 cited 1998)[1]
Senu River
  • Kwomtari–Nai
    • Kwomtari
Language codes
ISO 639-3kwo
Glottolognucl1593
ELPKwomtari
Coordinates: 3°35′46″S 141°21′42″E / 3.596084°S 141.361577°E / -3.596084; 141.361577 (Kwomtari)

Kwomtari is the eponymous language of the Kwomtari family of Papua New Guinea.

Spencer (2008) is a short grammar of Kwomtari. The language has an SOV[clarification needed] constituent order and nominative–accusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verb. Verbs are inflected for status (mood) rather than for tense or aspect.[2]

  1. ^ Kwomtari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Spencer, Katharine (2008). "Kwomtari grammar essentials". In Murray Honsberger, Carol Honsberger and Ian Tupper (ed.). Kwomtari phonology and grammar essentials. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL-PNG Academic Publications. pp. 53–180. ISBN 978-9980-0-3426-7.