Mor is a nearly extinct Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It is spoken along the Budidi River and the Bomberai River on the Bomberai Peninsula.
Classification It may form a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate. However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2sg pronouns na- and a-:
sg pl 1 na-ya ne-a 2 a-ya omase 3 mena morimene
Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf.New Guinea World, Mor
Nouns Nominal inflection for number in Mor is limited to only certain animate nouns, such as mor ‘man’ and mor-ir ‘men’. Other nouns do not inflect for number, such as is ‘bird/birds’.
Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),Voorhoeve, C.L. Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. B-31, iv + 133 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Mor |- | head || idura |- | hair || sa |- | eye || nana |- | tooth || nasona |- | leg || bana |- | louse || twoa |- | dog || afuna |- | pig || bia |- | bird || isa |- | egg || utreta |- | blood || wabmina |- | bone || weten |- | skin || gina |- | tree || wara |- | man || hiamia |- | sun || seba |- | water || sea |- | fire || taha |- | stone || puata |- | name || inagenena |- | eat || masmore |- | one || nadu |- | two || kin
A word list of Mor has also been collected by Johannes Anceaux.Smits, Leo and Clemens L. Voorhoeve. 1998. The J.C. Anceaux Collection of Wordlists of Irian Jaya Languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II). Leiden-Jakarta: Department of Cultures and Languages of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
References
External links Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Mor