Geographic
distribution New Guinea Glottolog paho1240 | Subdivisions Agöb
Idi | |
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Linguistic classification Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
Pahoturi | ||
The Pahoturi languages are a small family of Papuan languages. They are a pair of languages, Agöb (Dabu) and Idi, south of the Fly River, just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages. Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family.
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Classification
The two languages are,
Agöb (Dabu), Idi [a dialect chain]Wurm (1975) and Ross (2005) suggest that Pahoturi may be most closely related to the Tabo (Waia) language just north of the Fly delta. However, they present no evidence, and the pronouns do not match.
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,
References
Pahoturi languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA