| Kimki | |
| Nativename: | Sukubatom |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Papua Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Batom District, near Sepik River entrance to Papua New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 500 |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Pauwasi |
| Fam2: | Yetfa – South Pauwasi |
| Fam3: | South Pauwasi |
| Iso3: | sbt |
| Glotto: | kimk1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Kimki |
Kimki (Aipki) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim. Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)[1] found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
Dialects include the varieties spoken in Batom and Sabi villages (Rumaropen 2004).[2]
Pronouns are:
| 1 | win | name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | fume | same | |
| 3 | mame | ||
Basic vocabulary of Kimki listed in Foley (2018):[3]
| ‘bird’ | ã | |
| ‘blood’ | afupla | |
| ‘bone’ | kwal | |
| ‘breast’ | mua | |
| ‘ear’ | bwa | |
| ‘eat’ | auko | |
| ‘egg’ | im | |
| ‘eye’ | ẽ | |
| ‘fire’ | kamop | |
| ‘give’ | an | |
| ‘go’ | bi ~ kaik | |
| ‘ground’ | nim | |
| ‘hair’ | it | |
| ‘hear’ | fas | |
| ‘leg’ | up | |
| ‘louse’ | nim | |
| ‘man’ | ap | |
| ‘moon’ | lokaya | |
| ‘name’ | aip ~ mi | |
| ‘one’ | amatri | |
| ‘road, path’ | bagin | |
| ‘see’ | weː | |
| ‘sky’ | fim | |
| ‘stone’ | kwil | |
| ‘sun’ | bwakaya | |
| ‘tongue’ | albak | |
| ‘tooth’ | luː | |
| ‘tree’ | maul | |
| ‘two’ | alas | |
| ‘water’ | dɪ | |
| ‘woman’ | kiam |
Some example sentences in Kimki from Rumaropen (2004), as quoted in Foley (2018):[4] [3]
Only 12 sentence examples are given by Rumaropen (2004). Other than that, there are virtually no other sentences and texts available for Kimki.