Mombum
Komolom Muli Strait
Geographic distribution	Komolom Island, southern New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Asmat–Mombum Mombum
Language codes
Glottolog	momb1255
Map: The Mombum languages of New Guinea   The Mombum languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Mombum languages, also known as the Komolom or Muli Strait languages, are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Mombum (Komolom) and Koneraw, spoken on Komolom Island just off Yos Sudarso Island, and on the southern coast of Yos Sudarso Island, respectively, on the southern coast of New Guinea. Komolom Island is at the southern end of the Muli Strait.^[1]

Mombum was first classified as a branch isolate of the Central and South New Guinea languages in Stephen Wurm's 1975 expansion for Trans–New Guinea, a position tentatively maintained by Malcolm Ross, though he cannot tell if the similarities are shared innovations or retentions from proto-TNG. Usher instead links them to the Asmat languages.^[1] Koneraw is clearly related to Mombum, but was overlooked by early classifications. Along with the Kolopom languages, they are the languages spoken on Yos Sudarso Island (Kolopom Island).

Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018), who refer to the languages as the Komolom branch, tentatively leave it as unclassified rather than as part of Trans-New Guinea.^[2]

Pronouns are:

	sg	pl
1	*nu	*nu-mu, *ni
2	*yu	*yu-mu
3	*eu

The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970)^[3] and Voorhoeve (1975),^[4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.^[5]

The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. wonderam, wondrum for “head”) or not (e.g. iŋar, itöx for “bone”).

gloss	Koneraw	Mombum
head	wonderam	wondrum
hair	cin	xu-sin
eye	dyan	musax-nam
tooth	cire	zix
leg	kan	kaŋk
louse	am	am
dog	ubui	ipwi
pig	u	u
bird	baŋa	konji
egg		yausil
blood	iri	iri
bone	iŋar	itöx
skin	par	par
tree	to	tu
man	nam	nam
sun	dzuwo	zawa
water	mui	mwe
fire	war	wad
stone	mate	mete
name	ur	ur
eat	gim-nugu	nuku-
one	tenamotere	te
two	kuinam	kumb

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

• Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Muli Strait