Karas language


Karas is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language spoken on the biggest of the Karas Islands off the Bomberai Peninsula, that appears to be most closely related to the West Bomberai languages. It is spoken in Antalisa and Mas villages on Karas Island.

Pronouns

Cowan records the following pronouns for Karas.
SGDUPL
1aaninirpiridok
aantemu
2kame?kijumene
3mamemjeirmubameir

Visser records the following pronouns for Karas of Maas village:

Speakers deny that the difference between the two 1pl forms is clusivity, pace Cowan. The free possessives and possessive suffixes can occur together.
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