Amung language
Uhunduni, also known as Damal and Amung after two of its dialects, is the language of the Amung people. It is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms an independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross. However, it is treated as an isolate by Palmer.
Dialects are Amongme, Amung, Damal, Enggipilu.Classification
Pawley and Hammarström do not consider there to be sufficient evidence for Uhunduni to be classified as part of Trans-New Guinea, though they do note the following lexical resemblances between Uhunduni and proto-Trans-New Guinea.
- no- ‘eat’ < *na-
- mo- come’ < *me-
- mini- ‘sit’ < *mVna-
- eme- ‘give’ < *mV-
Pronouns
Ross lists the pronouns as:
Iru is an inclusive dual.
