Social:Tor–Kwerba languages
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Short description: Papuan language family
| Tor–Kwerba | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | North Papuan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | None |
The Tor–Kwerba languages are a family of Papuan languages. All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 Dani–Kwerba proposal.
Languages
Tor–Kwerba makes up the western branch of Usher's North Papuan family,[1] but Foley (2018) recognizes Tor-Kwerba as an independent language family.
- Tor-Kwerba
Typological overview
Even though grammatical gender is present in Tor-Kwerba languages, there is no overt gender marking on nouns. Verbal morphology is highly complex in Tor-Kwerba languages.[2]
Pronouns
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are:[2]
sg pl 1 *ati ~ *ait *ne(n) 2 *ame
Cognates
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba words that are widely distributed throughout the family:[2]
- *nukwe ‘eye’
- *tVn ‘leg’
- *nen ‘louse’
- *uŋis ‘sky’
- *ti ~ *it ‘tree’
References
- ↑ NewGuineaWord North New Guinea
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". 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. 433-568. 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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