Awin–Pa languages
Awin–Pa | |
---|---|
Awin–Pare | |
Geographic distribution: | New Guinea |
Linguistic classification: |
|
Subdivisions: | |
Glottolog: | awin1249[1] |
Map: The Awin–Pa languages of New Guinea
The Awin–Pa languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited |
The Awin–Pa or Awin–Pare languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Stephen Wurm (1975) added them to an expanded Central and South New Guinea branch of TNG, a position reversed by Ross (2005).
The languages are just two, Aekyowm (Awin) and Pare (Pa), and closely related to each other, perhaps even a dialect cluster. The pronouns appear to have been:
sg du pl 1 *na *ni *ne 2 *go *gi *ge 3 *ya
(The dual and plural forms are rather uncertain.)
References
- 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.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Awin–Pa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/3/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.