Social:East Kutubuan languages
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| East Kutubuan | |
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| East Kutubu | |
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Papuan Gulf ?
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| Glottolog | east2499[1] |
 Map: The East Kutubuan languages of New Guinea
The East Kutubuan languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
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The East Kutubuan languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. There are just two languages,
- Fiwaga and Foi,
which are not close to the West Kutubuan languages. These were linked in a "Kutubuan" family by Franklin and Voorhoeve in 1973, but that position has since been abandoned. Although East Kutubuan has proto-TNG vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion in TNG to be somewhat questionable.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "East Kutubu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2499.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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