Southeast Papuan languages explained

Southeast Papuan
Also Known As:	Bird's Tail Papuan Peninsula
Region:	Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Trans–New Guinea
Child1:	Koiarian
Child2:	Kwalean
Child3:	Manubaran
Child4:	Yareban–Mailuan
Child5:	Dagan
Glotto:	none
Map:	Southeast Papuan languages.svg
Mapcaption:	Map: The Southeast Papuan languages of New Guinea

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.

Languages

The languages are as follows:^[1]

• Dagan (Meneao Range)
• Owen Stanley Range
  • Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau)
  • Kwalean (Humene–Uare)
  • Manubaran (Mount Brown)
  • Mailu–Yareban
    • Yareban (Musa River)
    • Bauwaki
    • Mailuan (Cloudy Bay)

They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.

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

References

1. https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/papuan-peninsula New Guinea World, Papuan Peninsula
2. https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/papuan-peninsula/owen-stanley-range New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range