Urim language

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’

Pronouns
Pronouns are:



! !! singular !! dual !! paucal !! plural ! 1incl ! 1excl ! 2 ! 3
 * || ||  || mentepm
 * kupm || mentakŋ || minto || men
 * kitn || kipmekŋ || kipmteŋ || kipm
 * kil || tuwekŋ || tuteŋ || tu
 * }

Like the Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, Urim (as well as Kombio) distinguishes dual and paucal pronouns.