Warembori

Language

Warembori

Family

Lower Mamberamo

Ethnologue

wsa

ISO

wsa

glottolog_id

ware1253

Nouns table

gloss	layer	1 sg	2 sg	3 sg	1 ex pl	1 incl pl	2 pl	3 pl
arm	lexeme	everaro	averaro	beraro	ami beraro	keveraro	meveraro	teveraro
arm	prefix	e	a	zero	zero	ke	me	te
canoe	lexeme	ewaro	awaro	iwaro	ami waro	kiwaro	miwaro	tiwaro
canoe	prefix	e	a	i	zero	ki	mi	ti

Verbs table

gloss	layer	a	1 sg	2 sg	3 sg	1 ex pl	1 incl pl	2 pl	3 pl
eat	lexeme	V-initial	ane	wane	yane	amane	kane	mane	tane
eat	prefix	V-initial	zero	w	y	am	k	m	t
fly	lexeme	C-initial	yarove	arove	dove	amirove	kirove	mirove	tirove
fly	prefix	C-initial	ya	a	zero	ami	ki	mi	ti
go	lexeme	C-initial	era	ara	da	amira	kira	mira	tira
go	prefix	C-initial	e	a	zero	ami	ki	mi	ti
hide	lexeme	C-initial	evuene	avuene	ivuene	amevuene	kevuene	mevuene	tevuene
hide	prefix	C-initial	e	a	i	ame	ke	me	te
run	lexeme	C-initial	isayo	asayo	isayo	amisayo	kisayo	misayo	tisayo
run	prefix	C-initial	i	a	i	ami	ki	mi	ti
stare	lexeme	C-initial	ereve	wareve	yareve	amareve	kareve	mareve	tareve
stare	prefix	C-initial	e	wa	ya	ama	ka	ma	ta

Warembori notes

The different classes of pronominal markers on nouns and verbs are arbitrary (lexically specified).

Nouns

• The plural possesive prefixes have both Ci- and Ce- allomorphs, but their distribution is different: class I strongly prefers Ci-, while for class II it is less predictictable. That means in theory we might expect the following distribution, illustrated here with 3rd singular and plural:

  Ia	Ib	IIa	IIb
  3s	i-	i-	Ø	Ø
  3pl	ti-	te-	ti-	te-

• When used for inalienable possession, these are prefixes, when usd for alienable possession they are proclitic. (The difference can be observed through phonological effects on a following segment.)

Phonological notes

/d/ is regularly realized as /r/ intervocalically.

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References

Donohue, Mark. 1999. Warembori grammar sketch. Ms, University of Sydney.