East Bird's Head-Sentani languages
- East Bird's Head-Sentani languages
Infobox Language family
name=East Bird's Head-Sentani
region=Papua
familycolor=Papuan
fam1=Extended West Papuan ?
child1=East Bird's Head
child2=Burmeso
child3=Tause
child4=Sentani
The East Bird's Head-Sentani languages form a family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross which combines the East Bird's Head and Sentani families along with the Burmeso and Tause language isolates. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Würm's proposal for Trans-New Guinea. It has lexical similarities with the Asmat languages, but Ross does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship.
The East Bird's Head-Sentani languages, together with the West Papuan languages and the Yawa isolate, form part of a tentative proposal for an Extended West Papuan family. They are distinguished from the West Papuan family in having forms like "ba" or "wa" for the second-person singular ("thou") pronoun.
Classification
*East Bird's Head family
**"Mantion (Manikion)" language
**Meax branch: Meax (Meyah), Meninggo (Moskona)
*"Burmeso (Taurap)" isolate
*? "Tause" isolate (perhaps two languages, Tause and Weirate)
* Sentani family:
** "Demta" language
** Sentani proper: Sentani, Nafri, Tabla (Tanah Merah2)
Clouse (1997) classified Tause as a Lakes Plain language, but its pronouns are not a good match. Ross included it here partially to spark further investigation.
Pronouns
These families share no common vocabulary, and are linked only by their pronouns. The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-families are,
;Sentani:
;East Bird's Head:
Burmeso and Tause correspond in their first and second singular pronouns:
*Burmeso "da (de-), ba (be-)"
*Tause "di, ba"
ee also
*Papuan languages
References
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