Pahoturi languages
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| Pahoturi | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | paho1240[1] |
Map: The Pahoturi languages of New Guinea
The Pahoturi languages
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The Pahoturi languages are a small family of Papuan languages. They are a pair of languages, Agöb (Dabu) and Idi, south of the Fly River, just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages. Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family.
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Classification
The two languages are,
Wurm (1975) and Ross (2005) suggest that Pahoturi may be most closely related to the Tabo (Waia) language just north of the Fly delta. However, they present no evidence, and the pronouns do not match.[2]
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,
- Proto-Pahoturi
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I *ŋa-na we ? thou *ba or *be you *-bi s/he *bo they ?
See also
References
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