Glottolog: bord1247 | ||
Subdivisions: WarisTaikatBewani? 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.
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(Text) CC BY-SA