Urim

Urim is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Kalp; dialects are Kukwo, Yangkolen. There is a grammatical description by Hemmilä and Luoma (2009). Phonology Urim has vowel length contrast, but only for monosyllabic words. Urim also has the prestopped nasals /pm/, /tn/, and /kŋ/. Urim minimal pairs with short and long vowels: ‘time’, ‘tree trunk’ ‘wild sago’, ‘outside’ Pre-stopped nasals contrast with non-pre-stopped nasals: ‘species of plant’, waŋ ‘time’, ‘fire’ ‘enough’, yan ‘father’, ‘walk’ ‘nose’, ‘you (pl)’ ‘wasp’, ‘earthquake’, ‘liver’