Kimki language

Kimki
Sukubatom
Native toIndonesia
RegionPapua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
500 (2004)[1]
Pauwasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3sbt
Glottologkimk1238
ELPKimki

Kimki (Aipki[2]) 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.[2] Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.

An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[3] 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).[4]

  1. ^ Kimki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Foley-NWNG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ 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. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013).
  4. ^ New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River