South Bird's Head languages
| South Bird's Head | |
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| South Doberai | |
| Geographic distribution: | West Irian Jaya |
| Linguistic classification: |
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: |
None sout1516 (South Bird's Head proper)[1] kond1302 (Konda–Yahadian)[2] inan1242 (Inanwatan)[3] |
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Map: The South Bird's Head languages of New Guinea
The South Bird's Head languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
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The South Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are three families of Papuan languages. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.
Languages
Ross reconstructs pronouns *na 1sg and *a 2sg, but otherwise the three families have little in common and are not obviously related:
- Inanwatan: Duriankere, Suabo (Inanwatan)
- Konda–Yahadian: Konda, Yahadian
- South Bird's Head proper (Nuclear South Bird's Head):
Pronouns
The pronouns are:
sg pl 1ex *na *ni-ri, *i-ri 1in *na-ri, *ya-ri 2 *a *a-ri, *i-ri
3sg *ni is reconstructable for SBH proper. There appears to be both a plural vowel change from *a to *i, as in proto-TNG, and a plural suffix *-ri.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "South Bird's Head proper". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Konda–Yahadian". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Inanwatan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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