The Duna–Pogaya (Duna–Bogaia) languages are a proposed small
family
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of
Trans–New Guinea languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive Language family, family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as Western New Guinea, parts of Indone ...
in the classification of Voorhoeve (1975),
Ross (2005) and Usher (2018), consisting of two languages,
Duna and
Bogaya, which in turn form a branch of the larger
Trans–New Guinea family.
''Glottolog'', which is based largely on Usher, however finds the connections between the two languages to be tenuous, and the connection to TNG unconvincing.
Language contact
Duna has had significant influence on
Bogaya due to the socioeconomic dominance of Duna speakers over the less populous, less influential Bogaya speakers.
Duna also has much more influence from
Huli (a widely spoken
Trans-New Guinea language) at 27–32 percent lexical similarity with Huli, while Duna has only 5-10 percent.
Pronouns
Pronouns are:
:
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970), Shaw (1973), and Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. ''ɔwa'', ''hewa'' for “sun”) or not (e.g. ''fando'', ''tete'' for “louse”).
:
Evolution
Duna reflexes of
proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:
*''amu'' ‘breast’ < *amu
*''konane'' ‘ear’ < *kand(e,i)k(V]
*''kuni'' ‘bone’ < *
References
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Duna–Pogaya languages,
Trans–New Guinea languages
Languages of Papua New Guinea