Oriomo

The Oriomo (also Oriomo River, Oriomo Plateau, or Eastern Trans-Fly) languages are a small family of four Papuan languages spoken in the Western Province of New Guinea and the Australian Torres Strait islands of Mer, Erub, and Ugar.

I started working on the Oriomo languages in 2019, prior to graduating high school. My projects on Oriomo were primarily of a comparative historical bent, focused on the reconstruction of Proto-Oriomo segmental phonology and morphology. I developed a draft reconstruction of Proto-Oriomo segmental phonology in the first year of my undergraduate degree, but the result was never published. Currently, this project is shelved due to a lack of solid lexical and grammatical data on these languages, but I hope to return to it one day in the near future.