Social:Kayagar languages

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Kayagar
Cook River
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
  • Kayagar–Kolopom
    • Kayagar
Glottologkaya1327[1]
Kayagar languages.svg
Map: The Kayagar languages of New Guinea
  The Kayagar languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages:[2]

  • Atohwaim (Kaugat)
  • Gondu River
    • Yogo ('Tamagario')
    • Kayagar (Kaygir), Tamagario (Arare–Pagai)

Pronouns

Pronouns are:

sg pl
1 *na-ka *ni-pi
2 *a-ka *akani[-ka]
3 *e-ka

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kayagaric". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kaya1327. 
  2. New Guinea World, Gondu River
  • 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.