Extended West Papuan

Extended West Papuan

Infobox Language family
name=Extended West Papuan
region=Papua Province and Halmahera, Indonesia
familycolor=Papuan
family=a possible primary family of Papuan languages
child1=? West Papuan
child2=? Yawa
child3=? East Bird's Head-Sentani
The Extended West Papuan language family is a tentative proposal in Malcolm Ross's classification of Papuan languages. It includes the West Papuan languages of the Indonesian island of Halmahera and the Bird's Head Peninsula of far western New Guinea; the Yawa language isolate (or small family) on Yapen Island in Cenderawasih (Geelvink) Bay, Indonesian New Guinea (previously placed in the hypothetical Geelvink Bay family), and a newly proposed East Bird's Head-Sentani family scattered across northern Indonesian New Guinea.

The Extended West Papuan languages are defined by common first-person pronouns: "da" or "di" for the singular ("I"), and "m-" for the exclusive ("we"), which are found in all branches of the three constituent families except for the Amberbaken isolate within West Papuan proper.

The families linked by these various proposals are thus,

*West Papuan
*Yawa
*East Bird's Head-Sentani

Pronouns

The pronominal evidence connecting these families is at least as strong as the evidence for classifying Borai-Hattam as West Papuan. The relevant pronouns are "I", "thou", and "we" (exclusive).

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All have forms in "*d" for "I" and "*m" for "we". (Most Yawa forms of "we" also have "m," such as "imama," but they are too diverse for an easy reconstruction.) EBH-Sentani and Yava have bilabials for "thou".

ee also

*Papuan languages

References


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