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Doso language

Doso language

Language of New Guinea, PNG

Doso is a language of New Guinea. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative.[2] It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.

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Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986),[3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Doso at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Doso". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. [3]
    Shaw, R. (Ed.) (2015). Shaw, R. (ed.). "The Bosavi language family". doi:10.15144/PL-A70.45. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. [4]
    Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.


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