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Mailuan Languages
The Mailuan or Cloudy Bay languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around Cloudy Bay in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. Languages The languages, which all share about half of their vocabulary, are, * Domu, Binahari–Binahari-Ma, Morawa, Mailu (Magi), Laua Bauwaki–O'oku is closely related to the Mailuan languages. Classification Dutton (1971) said Bauwaki was a link to the Yareban languages. It has greater lexical similarity with Aneme Wake (Yareban) than the closest Mailuan language, Domu. Usher (2020) classifies Mailuan, Bauwaki and Yareban together. Magi shows evidence of language shift from an Oceanic language in many Oceanic words. Pronouns Usher (2020) reconstructs the proto-Mailuan–Yareban pronouns as: : Ross (1995) reconstructs the Mailuan pronouns as: : Vocabulary comparison The following basic vocabulary words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiduan Languages
Maiduan (also Maidun, Pujunan) is a small endangered language family of northeastern California. Family division The Maiduan consists of 4 languages: * Maiduan ** Maidu (also known as Maidu proper, Northeastern Maidu, Mountain Maidu) ** Chico (also known as Valley Maidu) ** Konkow (also known as Northwestern Maidu) ** Nisenan (also known as Southern Maidu) The languages have similar sound systems but differ significantly in terms of grammar. They are not mutually intelligible, even though many works often refer to all of the speakers of these languages as ''Maidu''. The Chico dialects are little known due to scanty documentation, so their precise genetic relationship to the other languages probably cannot be determined (Mithun 1999), and in any case may have been not a fourth Maiduan language, but widely divergent dialects of Konkow (Ultan 1967). Three of the languages went extinct by approximately the year 2000. Konkow was reported to have 3 elderly speakers in 2007. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |