The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small
families
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Papuan languages
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Bird's Tail
The Papuan Peninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the southeastern portion of the island of New Guinea. The peninsula is the easternmost extent of t ...
" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.
Languages
The languages are as follows:
New Guinea World, Papuan Peninsula
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* Dagan ( Meneao Range)
*Owen Stanley Range
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History
Owen Stanley Range was seen in 1849 by Captain Owe ...
** Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau)
** Kwalean (Humene–Uare)
** Manubaran (Mount Brown)
**Mailu–Yareban
*** Yareban (Musa River
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***'' Bauwaki''
*** Mailuan (Cloudy Bay
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They have in common ''ya'' for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG ''*gi''.
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range]
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Lexical comparison
The lexical data below is from the Trans-New Guinea database
References
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea
Trans–New Guinea languages