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Kuman language (Papua New Guinea)

LC control no.sh 85023957
LC classificationPL6621.C4
Topical headingKuman language (Papua New Guinea)
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Variant(s)Chimbu language
Kumanugu language
Simbu language
See alsoPapua New Guinea--Languages
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Papuan languages
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Found inKuman ka okuna-imbo ka-boglo, November 2006: title page (Kuman stories) page 4 of cover (Kuman language, Simbu and Koro river valleys of Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea; about 120,000 speakers)
Ethnologue, November 29, 2014 (Kuman; alternate names: Chimbu, Simbu; major area language used as a trade language for all the other Chimbu languages)
Ruhlen. A guide to the world's languages, 1987: page 355 (Chimbu)
Voegelin. Classification and index of the world's languages, 1977: page 258 (Chimbu=Kuman)
The verbal syntax of Kuman, 1985 via WWW, November 29, 2014.
Acoustic properties of the Kuman voiceless velar lateral fricative, 2004, via WWW November 29, 2014: page 346 (Kuman (Chimbu) language of Papua New Guinea's Simbu Province)
Phonotactics and the prestopped velar lateral of Hiw, 2010 via WWW, November 29, 2014: page 402 (Papuan language Kuman (Chimbu family))
Ethnologue online, Feb. 9, 2015; (Kuman; a language of Papua New Guinea; alternate names: Chimbu, Simbu; classification: Trans-New Guinea, Chimbu-Wahgi, Chimbu; another language called Kuman in Uganda)