Social:Goilalan languages
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| Goilalan | |
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| Wharton Range | |
| Geographic distribution | Central Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Binanderean–Goilalan[1]
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| Glottolog | goil1242[2] |
 Map: The Goilalan languages of New Guinea
The Goilalan languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
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The Goilalan languages are a group of languages placed in the Trans–New Guinea family by Stephen Wurm (1975) and tentatively retained there in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).
Languages
The languages are,
- Fuyug
- Tauade
- Northern (Kunimaipa): Biangai–Kunimaipa–Weri
The languages are clearly related, especially northern Biagai, Kunimaipa, and Weri, which might be considered divergent dialects.
Pronouns
Pronouns are:
- Northern: 1sg ne, 2sg ni, 3sg pi
- Tauade/Fuyug: 1sg na, 2sg nu
Tauade also has the possessive pronouns ne-ve, ni-e.
Evolution
Fuyuge reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[3]
- baba ‘father’ < *mbapa
- sabe ‘saliva’ < *si(mb,p)at
- magata ‘mouth, jaw’ < *maŋgat[a]
- mele-pila ‘tongue’ < *mele-mbilaŋ
- imu ‘eye’ < *(ŋg,k)amu
- ije ‘tree’ < *inda
References
- ↑ New Guinea World, Oro – Wharton Range
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Goilalan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/goil1242.
- ↑ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- 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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