Inland Gulf languages

Inland Gulf
Geographic
distribution:		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

  • Inland Gulf
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: inla1262[1]

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Map: The Inland Gulf languages of New Guinea
  The Inland Gulf languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Inland Gulf languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The unity of the languages was established by K. Franklin in 1969. Although the family as a whole is clearly valid, Ipiko is quite distinct from the other languages.

Pronouns for the Minanibai branch are:

sgpl
1 *no*ni
2 *go*dau
3 ?*eti

Ipiko only reflects 1pl *ni.

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Inland Gulf". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.