Mor language (Papuan) should not be confused with Mor language (Austronesian).
| Mor | |
| Region: | Fakfak Regency, West Papua |
| Speakers: | 30 |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Speakers2: | 70 semi-speakers (2012) |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Berau Gulf |
| Iso3: | moq |
| Glotto: | morb1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Mor (Bomberai Peninsula) |
| Map: | Mor language.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Map: The Mor language of New Guinea |
Mor is a nearly extinct Trans–New Guinea language of Indonesia. It is spoken along the Budidi River and the Bomberai River on the Bomberai Peninsula.[1]
It may form a tentative independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005), but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate.[2] However, the only connections are the 1sg and 2sg pronouns na- and a-:
| sg | pl | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | na-ya | ne-a | |
| 2 | a-ya | omase | |
| 3 | mena | morimene |
Usher classifies it with the other Trans–New Guinea languages of the Berau Gulf.[3]
Nominal inflection for number in Mor is limited to only certain animate nouns, such as mor ‘man’ and mor-ir ‘men’. Other nouns do not inflect for number, such as is ‘bird/birds’.[1]
The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975),[4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5]
| gloss | Mor | |
|---|---|---|
| head | idura | |
| hair | sa | |
| eye | nana | |
| tooth | nasona | |
| leg | bana | |
| louse | twoa | |
| dog | afuna | |
| pig | bia | |
| bird | isa | |
| egg | utreta | |
| blood | wabmina | |
| bone | weten | |
| skin | gina | |
| tree | wara | |
| man | hiamia | |
| sun | seba | |
| water | sea | |
| fire | taha | |
| stone | puata | |
| name | inagenena | |
| eat | masmore | |
| one | nadu | |
| two | kin |
A word list of Mor has also been collected by Johannes Anceaux.[6]