Karami is an extinct and unclassified Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. It is attested from only a short word list, which include many loans from Foia Foia.Usher, Timothy. Inland Gulf family. New Guinea World.
Geographical distribution According to Flint (1919: 96), from which the only existing word list of Karami is available, Karami was spoken in the villages of Kikimairi and Aduahai, both located near Daru Station, "on the right-hand side (in the bush) of left branch of the Turama River, Western Division, Papua."
Classification Although Franklin (1968; 1973: 269-273) classifies Karami as an Inland Gulf language,Franklin, Karl J. 1968. Languages of the Gulf District: A preview. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 8:17‒44. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.Franklin, Karl J. 1973. Other language groups in the Gulf District and adjacent areas. In The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea, ed. by Karl J. Franklin, 263‒77. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Usher and Suter (2015: 125) do not consider it to be part of the Anim languages, noting that there are many loanwords from Foia Foia.Timothy Usher and Edgar Suter (2015) "The Anim Languages of Southern New Guinea". Oceanic Linguistics 54:110–142
Pawley and Hammarström (2018) treat Karami as a 'language isolate', though this is the wording used for languages that are not easily classified.
Vocabulary Below is the word list of Karami from Flint (1919), which was recorded on October 12, 1917.Flint, L. A. 1919. Vocabularies: Daru station, Western Division. Papua. Annual Report for the Year 1917‒18, 96. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Karami |- | sun || aimea |- | moon || kuwiri |- | star || bube |- | wind || urama |- | rain || darepu |- | night || duruki |- | land || borti |- | stone || agabu |- | hill || darai |- | water || auwo |- | river || dupa |- | fire || mavio |- | woman || kipa |- | man || sor |- | child || kikiwea |- | father || tore |- | mother || tukini |- | wife || kipa |- | friend || mabukari |- | chief || naramuabera |- | sorcerer || adura |- | blood || toki |- | bone || goni |- | skin || kebora |- | hair || epurupa |- | face || osomi |- | ear || kuse |- | eye || epegu |- | lip || magita |- | mouth || magetia |- | nose || wodi |- | tongue || muta |- | neck || dogodi |- | tooth || saku |- | arm || sibu |- | shoulder || binahiwe |- | elbow || po |- | finger || kimarari |- | thumb || tugeti |- | finger (1st-4th) || kimarari |- | hand || simai-a |- | leg || auni |- | foot || mea |- | belly || niro |- | breast || bodoro |- | nipple || kino |- | navel || dumu |- | pig || giromoi |- | dog || kso |- | wallaby || teberi |- | rat || suma |- | bird || kaimo |- | cassowary || koibo |- | fowl || beia |- | crocodile || ibirai |- | hornbill || kube-i |- | snake || wositari |- | fish || mini |- | louse || sugani |- | mosquito || kieono |- | forest || gamai-i |- | tree || sumari |- | sago || asiba |- | banana || imara |- | sugarcane || amoro |- | yam || kusu |- | sweet potato || ori |- | taro || orpuo |- | bamboo || bira |- | tobacco || warariga |- | village || kuni |- | house || ogota |- | path || ige |- | canoe || gipainoe |- | paddle || sitara |- | bow || tiri |- | arrow || bira |- | shield || siwi |- | no || wote |- | two || kipainoe |- | one || botie |- | three || kipai-ia |- | four || mosokoto |- | five || tuporo |- | seven || diri |- | eight || ma |- | nine || ta-o |- | ten || taura |- | twenty || magagai |- | I || torgue |- | thou || kuria
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