Revision of alternate names for Mubami
PrintRevision of alternate names for Mubami
Jason Hill, Thu, 2022-11-10 22:24
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ISO 639-3:
tsxCurrently, the ethnologue has the following information:
"Alternate Names: Dausame, Dausuami Mubami, Ta, Tao-Suamato, Tao-Suame." However, after dialoging with a number of Mubami people in several different villages, I can confirm that the Mubami people do not use Tao-Suamato or Tao-Suame. They do not know what these designations refer to but they suspect they are possibly names used by speakers of other languages to refer to them. However, even this usage of Tao-Suamato or Tao-Suame cannot be confirmed. Thus, Tao-Suamato and Tao-Suame should be eliminated from the alternate names list for Mubami. Additionally, I was informed that another name for the Dausami dialect is "Tama'ai." Most commonly, speakers of this dialect are referred to as Dausami, but Tama'ai seems to be another name for it. This dialect originates in Ugu village, the southernmost Mubami village which lies on the Aramia River. According to Mubami speakers in several villages, this dialect of Mubami uses some Gogodala vocabulary and variations on Mubami words.The revised entry would then be as follows: "Alternate Names: Dausame, Dausuami Mubami, Ta, Tama'ai."
Editorial Action
We will update the language names and dialect names for Mubami [tsx] in Papua New Guinea, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.


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Dear Jason,
Thank you for this information on the alternate names for Mubami [tsx] in Papua New Guinea.
Are the two main dialects of this language Mubami (prestige dialect) and Dausami? Ethnologue has `Dausame' and `Dausuami Mubami' listed as alternate names of the language, but not as dialect names. Generally speaking, dialect names and alternate names are not the same in the Ethnologue. Please advise.
Blessings,
Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
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