Mubami is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It goes by the names Dausame, Tao-Suamato, Tao-Suame, and Ta. The language is used in all age groups and domains of life, including education, and is therefore counted as not presently endangered.Harald Hammarström, 2010: The status of the least documented language families in the world.
It is spoken in Diwami, Kubeai, Parieme, Paueme, Sogae, Ugu, and Waliho villages on the Guavi and Aramia rivers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
A word list of Mubami can be found in Z'graggen (1975).Z'graggen, John A. 1975. Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent Areas. In: Richard Loving (ed.), Comparative Wordlists I. 5–116. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. (Rearranged version of Franklin ed. 1973: 541–592) with typographical errors.)
Phonology
Consonants LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasal()PlosivevoicelessvoicedFricativevoiceless()voicedRhoticApproximant
[f] is mainly heard as a variant of /p/. [ɲ] is heard in the sequence /nj/.
Vowels FrontCentralBackCloseMidOpen
/e, o/ can also have realizations of [ɛ, ɔ].
References
External links Mubami. New Guinea World.