Southeast Papuan languages
Language group of New Guinea
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The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.
Geographic
distributionSoutheastern peninsula of New Guinea
distributionSoutheastern peninsula of New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
- Southeast Papuan
GlottologNone
| Southeast Papuan | |
|---|---|
| Bird's Tail Papuan Peninsula | |
| Geographic distribution | Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
Map: The Southeast Papuan languages of New Guinea
The Southeast Papuan languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Languages
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2]
Owen Stanley Meneao (Dagan) sg pl sg pl 1 *na ? *n[e/a] *nu 2 *ga *ja *g[e/a] *j[e/a] 3 *e (?) *ie (?) *me *mV