Sentani languages
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| Sentani | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Papua |
| Linguistic classification: | East Bird's Head – Sentani?
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: | sent1261[1] |
The Sentani languages form a language family in the "Bird's Head" Peninsula of western New Guinea. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Wurm's proposal for Trans–New Guinea. The languages have lexical similarities with the Asmat–Kamoro languages, but Ross (2005) does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship, and proposes instead that they are related to the East Bird's Head languages.
Contents
Classification
Sentani stock (3 languages)
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-family are:
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I *də exclusive we *me inclusive we *e thou *wa you ? s/he *nə they ?
See also
References
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