Glottolog manu1261 | ||
Geographic
distribution Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea Linguistic classification Trans–New Guinea
Manubaran | ||
The Manubaran languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are sometimes included in a speculative Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea (TNG), but the Southeast Papuan families have not been shown to be any more closely related to each other than they are to other TNG families.
The languages are Doromu and Maria, and are 63% lexically similar. Apart from the pronoun *na "I", they have almost nothing in common with other branches of TNG.
Pronouns are:
References
Manubaran languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA