Border languages (New Guinea)
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| Border
Tami
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| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Genetic classification: |
a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
? Morwap
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The Border or Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal.
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[edit] Classification
- Border
- Morwap (Elseng) isolate
- Waris family: Waris, Manem, Senggi, Punda-Umeda, Waina, Daonda, Auwe (Simog), Amanab
- Taikat family: Awyi, Taikat
- Bewani family: Ainbai, Umeda, Kilmeri, Ningera, Pagi
Laycock classified Morwap as an isolate, but noted pronominal similarities with Border. Ross included Morwap in Border, but noted that they do not appear to share any lexical similarities. However, the Morwap data is quite poor.
[edit] Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Border are,
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I *ka exclusive we *kia- ? inclusive we *bile ? thou *je you ? s/he *ihe they *ihe- ?
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- 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.
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