Kolopom languages

The Kolopom languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Along with the Mombum languages, they are the languages spoken on Kolepom Island (Yos Sudarso Island) in South Papua, Indonesia.

The Kolopom languages are:[1] Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[1] Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[1] Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[1] Cognates among Kolopom languages listed by Evans (2018):[2] The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970)[3] and Voorhoeve (1975),[4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5] The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. mete, meːt, metö for “stone”) or not (e.g. tuakwo, reːt, modo for “head”).

Kolopom reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[6] Kimaghana language: Riantana language: