| Doso | |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Papuan Gulf ? |
| Fam2: | Strickland |
| Fam3: | Doso–Turumsa |
| Iso3: | dol |
| Glotto: | doso1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Doso |
Doso is a language of New Guinea. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative.[1] It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.
The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986),[2] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[3]
| gloss | Doso | |
|---|---|---|
| head | abaki | |
| hair | abuluso | |
| ear | apu | |
| eye | usa | |
| nose | bulu | |
| tooth | da | |
| tongue | ithi | |
| leg | sʌřei | |
| louse | amu | |
| dog | khasa | |
| pig | nɛna | |
| bird | sɩkĩ | |
| egg | wõnõ | |
| blood | omani | |
| bone | khi | |
| skin | bʌli | |
| breast | toka | |
| tree | gu | |
| man | haimo | |
| woman | dobo | |
| sun | khikha | |
| moon | ři | |
| water | umu | |
| fire | dɩki | |
| stone | kɔ | |
| name | samu | |
| eat | nane |