Imonda language

Imonda
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province
Native speakers
(250 cited 1994)[1]
Border
  • Bewani Range
    • Bapi River
      • Imonda
Language codes
ISO 639-3imn
Glottologimon1245
ELPImonda

Imonda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It has a simple consonant system and a complex vowel system, with no phonological tones. Imonda is heavily verb oriented, and does not mark nouns for number or gender, but marks number on the verb for subject, object, and several other types of noun phrases. Tense, aspect, negation and interrogation are also indicated in part on the verb. There is a very high-frequency topic clitic, which can be used on noun phrases, adverbs, or verbs. The language has no coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, filling these roles with other approaches.

  1. ^ Imonda at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon