Oksapmin language
| Oksapmin | |
|---|---|
| Oksap | |
| nuxule meŋ 'our language' | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2005) |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | opm |
| Glottolog | oksa1245 |
| ELP | Oksapmin |
Map: The Oksapmin language of New Guinea
The Oksapmin language
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Oksapmin Rural LLG, Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea. The two principal dialects are distinct enough to cause some problems with mutual intelligibility.
Oksapmin has dyadic kinship terms and a body-part counting system that goes up to 27. Notable ethnographic research by Geoffrey B. Saxe at UC Berkeley has documented the encounter between pre-contact uses of number and its cultural evolution under conditions of monetization and exposure to schooling and the formal economy among the Oksapmin.