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Border languages (New Guinea)

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Geographic distribution:
  
New Guinea

Glottolog:
  
bord1247

Linguistic classification:
  
One of the world's primary language families

Subdivisions:
  
Waris Taikat Bewani ? Morwap

The Border or Upper Tami 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.

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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:

    References

    Border languages (New Guinea) Wikipedia
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