Pahoturi languages

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Pahoturi
Geographic
distribution:		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification: Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
  • Waia–Pahoturi
    • Pahoturi
Subdivisions:
Ethnologue code: 17-2214

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.

Classification

Ross (2005) proposes that they may be most closely related to the Tabo (Waia) language just north of the Fly delta.

Pahoturi family: Agöb (Dabu), Idi [a dialect chain]

Waia



Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,

Proto-Pahoturi
I*ŋa-nawe?
thou*ba or *beyou*-bi
s/he*bothey?

See also

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. 
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