The Burmeso language – also known as Taurap – is spoken by some 300 people in Burmeso village along the mid Mamberamo River in Mamberamo Tengah subdistrict, Mamberamo Raya Regency , Papua province , Indonesia . It is surrounded by the Kwerba languages to the north, the Lakes Plain languages to the south, and the East Cenderawasih Bay languages to the west.
4-664: Burmeso forms a branch of Malcolm Ross 's family of East Bird's Head – Sentani languages , but had been considered a language isolate by Stephen Wurm and William A. Foley . The language has very distinct grammatical structure. It has SOV word order. Probable sound changes proposed by Foley (2018): Burmeso independent pronouns are: Burmeso has six noun classes , which are: Burmeso nouns have three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Singular concordial suffixes are: Examples of nominal concordial suffixes in usage: koya grandfather bek- ab good- M . SG koya bek- ab grandfather good- M.SG ‘Grandfather
8-941: Is an Australian linguist . He is the emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University . Ross is best known among linguists for his work on Austronesian and Papuan languages , historical linguistics , and language contact (especially metatypy ). He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996. Ross served as the Principal of Goroka Teachers College in Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982, during which time he self-statedly become interested in local languages, and began to collect data on them. In 1986, he received his PhD from
12-603: Is good.’ asia grandmother ek- an good- F . SG asia ek- an grandmother good- F.SG ‘Grandmother is good.’ Basic vocabulary of Burmeso (singular and plural nominal forms) listed in Foley (2018): Many Burmeso nouns display irregular and suppletive plural forms. The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: Malcolm Ross (linguist) Malcolm David Ross FAHA (born 1942)
16-563: The ANU under the supervision of Stephen Wurm , Bert Voorhoeve and Darrell Tryon . His dissertation was on the genealogy of the Oceanic languages of western Melanesia, and contained an early reconstruction of Proto Oceanic . Malcolm Ross introduced the concept of a linkage , a group of languages that evolves via dialect differentiation rather than by tree-like splits. Together with Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond, Ross has contributed to
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