Social:Somahai languages
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| Momuna | |
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| Somahai | |
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Glottolog | soma1242[2] |
The Momuna languages, Momina and Momuna, also known as Somahai, are a family of two closely related Papuan languages spoken in the highlands of Papua province, Indonesia.
Classification
The Somahai pronouns, singular *na, *ka, *mo, are typical of Trans–New Guinea languages. They were placed in the Central and South New Guinea branch of that family by Wurm. Ross could not locate enough evidence to classify them. Usher found them to be closest to the Mek languages, in the Central West New Guinea, which partially overlaps with Wurm's C&SNG.
References
- ↑ Momuna–Mek, New Guinea World
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Somahai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/soma1242.
- 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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