Border languages (New Guinea)
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| Border | |
|---|---|
| Upper Tami | |
| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | bord1247[1] |
The Border or Upper Tami[2] languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. They are named after the Indonesia – Papua New Guinea border, which they span.
Classification
There are three unambiguous families within the Border languages, plus a possible erstwhile isolate.
- ? Morwap (Elseng) isolate
- Waris family: Waris, Imonda, Manem, Senggi (Viid), Punda-Umeda (Sowanda), Waina (Sowanda), 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, Morwap data are quite poor.
Pronouns
The pronouns that Ross reconstructs for proto-Border are the following:
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I *ka exclusive we *kia- ? inclusive we *bile ? thou *je you ? s/he *ihe they *ihe- ?
References
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- ↑ Cowan (1957) tentatively proposed a "Tami" family, named after the Tami River, that included the modern Border and Sko language families. Some of the previously unclassified languages did turn out to be Sko, and were added to that family; the remainder (including the languages of the upper Tami) constitute the Border family.
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