The Gogodala–Suki or Suki – Aramia River languages are a small
language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in hist ...
of Papua New Guinea, spoken in the region of the Aramia River. The four language are clearly related.
Languages
The languages are:
* Gogodala–Suki family
** ''
Suki'' language
** Gogodala (
Aramia River
The Aramia River is a river in southwestern Papua New Guinea. Aramia Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2013-05-07; database downloaded 2015-06-22
See also
*List of rivers of Papua New Guinea This is a list of rivers of Papua New Guinea.
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) branch:
Gogodala,
Ari
Ari may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Ari (name), a name in various languages, including a list of people and fictional characters
* Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish rabbinical scholar and mystic known also as Ari
* Ari (foot ...
,
Waruna
Gogodala–Suki languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below.
:
Reconstruction
Phonology
The reconstructed sound system is,
[Usher, Timothy. 2020]
Suki-Aramia River
''NewGuineaWorld''.
It's not clear that there was *w or *j distinct from *u and *i.
Pronouns
Free pronouns and object prefixes are:
[
:
:
(2sg and 3sg is zero.)
]
Lexicon
Proto-Suki–Aramia (i.e., Proto-Gogodala–Suki) lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[
:
]
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970), Voorhoeve (1970), and Reesink (1976), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:
Evolution
Gogodalic-Suki formed a branch of Trans–New Guinea languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands ‒ corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as parts of Indonesia.
Trans–New Guinea is the third-la ...
in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Possible reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:Gogodala language
Gogodala is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, I ...
:
*''omo'' ‘breast’ < *amu
*''magata'' ‘mouth, jaw’ < *maŋgat *''mele-pila'' ‘tongue’ < *mele-mbilaŋ
*''imu'' ‘eye’ < *(ŋg,k)amu
*''mi'' ‘louse’ < *iman, *niman
*''kadepa'' ‘sun’ < *kand(a,e)pa
*''ila'' ‘tree, fire’ < *inda
*''na''- ‘eat’ < *na-
*''mana''- ‘sit, stay’ < *mVna-
Suki language
Suki is a Gogodala-Suki language spoken by about 3500 people several miles inland along the Fly River in southwestern Papua New Guinea.
Overview
Suki is primarily spoken in six villages of the Western Province: Gwaku (), Iwewi, Ewe, Gwibaku (), ...
:
*''gigoa'' ‘cassowary
Cassowaries ( tpi, muruk, id, kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus ''Casuarius'' in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bones) and are native to the tropical forest ...
’ < *ku(y)a
*''na''- ‘eat’ < *na-
References
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Further reading
*Reesink, G.P.
Languages of the Aramia River Area
. In Reesink, G.P., Fleischmann, L., Turpeinen, S. and Lincoln, P.C. editors, ''Papers in New Guinea Linguistics'' No. 19. A-45:1-38. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976.
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Suki – Aramia River
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Papuan Gulf languages
Language families
Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)