| Mor | |
|---|---|
| Region | Fakfak Regency,West Papua |
Native speakers | 30 (2012)[1] 70 semi-speakers (2012) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | moq |
| Glottolog | morb1239 |
| ELP | Mor (Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesia) |
 Map: The Mor language of New Guinea The Mor language Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited | |
Mor is a nearly extinctTrans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It is spoken along theBudidi River and theBomberai River on theBomberai Peninsula.[2]
It may form a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification ofMalcolm Ross (2005), but Palmer (2018) classifies it as alanguage isolate.[3] However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2sg pronounsna- anda-:
| sg | pl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | na-ya | ne-a |
| 2 | a-ya | omase |
| 3 | mena | morimene |
Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of theBerau Gulf.[4]
Nominal inflection for number in Mor is limited to only certain animate nouns, such asmor ‘man’ andmor-ir ‘men’. Other nouns do not inflect for number, such asis ‘bird/birds’.[2]: 97
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),[5] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[6]
| gloss | Mor |
|---|---|
| head | idura |
| hair | sa |
| eye | nana |
| tooth | nasona |
| leg | bana |
| louse | twoa |
| dog | afuna |
| pig | bia |
| bird | isa |
| egg | utreta |
| blood | wabmina |
| bone | weten |
| skin | gina |
| tree | wara |
| man | hiamia |
| sun | seba |
| water | sea |
| fire | taha |
| stone | puata |
| name | inagenena |
| eat | masmore |
| one | nadu |
| two | kin |
A word list of Mor has also been collected byJohannes Anceaux.[7]
Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". InAndrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.).Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66.doi:10.15144/PL-572.ISBN 0858835622.OCLC 67292782.