Porome language
Porome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Classification. Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages, there is no evidence for a connection apart from the pronouns 1sg "amo" and 2sg "do" (cf. proto-Kiwaian *mo and *oro). Distribution. There are over a thousand speakers in "Babaguina" (), "Doibo" (), "Ero" (), "Paile", "Tipeowo", and "Wowa" () villages in West Kikori Rural LLG and East Kikori Rural LLG of Gulf Province, near the Aird Hills and Kikori River tributaries. Phonology. Porome has 9 native  consonants. /s/ occurs in loanwords. There are no glottal consonants. There are five vowels, which are /a, e, i, o, u/. Like the surrounding languages, Porome is a tonal language. It has 5 tones. Pronouns. The independent pronouns and subject suffixes to the verb are as follows: Vocabulary. Selected Porome vocabulary from Petterson (2010): Comparison. Lexical comparison of Porome with neighboring languages: Comparison of Porome's phonological inventory with those of neighboring languages: