Border languages (New Guinea)

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The Border (Tami) languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal.

1 Classification
2 Pronouns
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Classification

Border

Morwap (Elseng) isolate
Waris family: Waris, Manem, Senggi, Punda-Umeda, Waina, Daonda, Auwe (Simog), Amanab
Taikat family: Awyi, Taikat
Bewani family: Ainbai, Umeda, Kilmeri, Ningera, Pagi

Laycock classified Morwap as an isolate, but noted pronominal similarities with Border. Ross included Morwap in Border, but noted that they do not appear to share any lexical similarities. However, the Morwap data is quite poor.

[edit] Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Border are,

I	*ka	exclusive we	*kia- ?
I	*ka	inclusive we	*bile ?
thou	*je	you	?
s/he	*ihe	they	*ihe- ?

[edit] See also

Papuan languages

[edit] References

Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages", in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds.: Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, pp. 15-66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.