Urim language
Urim is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Kalp; dialects are Kukwo, Yangkolen. There is a grammatical description by Hemmilä and Luoma.Phonology
Urim has vowel length contrast, but only for monosyllabic words. Urim also has the prestopped nasals /pm/, /tn/, and /kŋ/.
Urim minimal pairs with short and long vowels:
- waŋ ‘time’, waːŋ ‘tree trunk’
- hen ‘wild sago’, heːn ‘outside’
Pre-stopped nasals contrast with non-pre-stopped nasals:
- wak ‘species of plant’, waŋ ‘time’, wakŋ ‘fire’
- yat ‘enough’, yan ‘father’, hatn ‘walk’
- lim ‘nose’, kipm ‘you ’
- melp ‘wasp’, yelm ‘earthquake’, walpm'' ‘liver’
Pronouns are:
Like the Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, Urim distinguishes dual and paucal pronouns.
