| 词条 | Purari language |
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|name=Purari |states=Papua New Guinea |region=Purari River, Gulf Province |speakers=7,000 |date=2011 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Papuan |fam1=Binanderean–Goilalan[1] |script=Latin |iso3=iar |glotto=pura1257 |glottorefname=Purari }} Purari is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Pronouns are 1sg nai, 2sg ni, 1pl enei. The first may resemble Trans–New Guinea *na, but Purari appears to be related to the Binanderean–Goilalan languages.[1] NamePurari is also known as Koriki, Evorra, I'ai, Maipua, and Namau. "Namau" is a colonial term which means "deaf (lit.), inattentive, or stupid (Williams 1924: 4)." Today people of the Purari Delta find this term offensive. F.E. Williams reports that the "[a]n interpreter suggests that by some misunderstanding the name had its origin in the despair of an early missionary, who, finding the natives turned a deaf ear to his teaching, dubbed them all 'Namau'." (Williams 1924: 4). Koriki, I'ai, and Maipua refer to self-defining groups that make up the six groups that today compose the people who speak Purari. Along with the Baroi (formerly known as the Evorra, which was the name of a village site), Kaimari and the Vaimuru, these groups speak mutually intelligible dialects of Purari. References1. ^1 [https://sites.google.com/site/newguineaworld/families/oro-wharton-range New Guinea World, Oro – Wharton Range] Further reading
External links{{Incubator|code= iar}}Materials on Karnai are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections (AC1 and AC2) held by Paradisec
2 : Language isolates of New Guinea|Binanderean–Goilalan languages |
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