| Border | |
|---|---|
| Tami | |
| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | a primary family of Papuan languages |
| Subdivisions: |
? Morwap
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The Border or Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. They are named after the Indonesia – Papua New Guinea border, which they span.
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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, Morwap data are quite poor.
The pronouns that Ross reconstructs for proto-Border are the following:
| I | *ka | exclusive we | *kia- ? |
| inclusive we | *bile ? | ||
| thou | *je | you | ? |
| s/he | *ihe | they | *ihe- ? |