Chimbu–Wahgi languages

Chimbu–Wahgi
Central–East New Guinea Highlands
Geographic
distribution		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification

Trans–New Guinea

  • Chimbu–Wahgi
Subdivisions
  • Chimbu
  • Hagen
  • Jimi
  • Wahgi
Glottolog cent2120[1]

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Map: The Chimbu–Wahgi languages of New Guinea
  The Chimbu–Wahgi languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Chimbu–Wahgi languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages.

Languages

There is little doubt that the Chimbu–Wahgi family is valid. The languages are:

Features

Several of the Chimbu–Wahgi languages have lateral consonants, which are uncommon: see Nii, Wahgi, and Kuman for examples. Tone is contrastive. The singular pronouns are:

sg
1 *ná
2 *nim
3 *[y]é

Dual *-l and plural *-n reflect Trans–New Guinea forms.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Central East New Guinea Highlands". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. 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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