Lakes Plain languages
| Lakes Plain | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | Possibly one of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | lake1255 |
The Lakes Plain languages are a small family of Papuan languages. They were tentatively grouped by Stephen Wurm with the Tor languages in his Trans–New Guinea proposal. Clouse (1997) found no evidence of a connection to the Tor languages and grouped them with the Geelvink Bay languages. Malcolm Ross classifies the languages as an independent family.
Wurm's family-level nodes are bold in the cladogram below:
Rasawa–Saponi: Rasawa, ?? Saponi
East Lakes Plain: Foau, Taworta (Diebroud)
Turu: Edopi–Iau–Foi–Turu [a dialect cluster]
West Tariku: Fayu, Kirikiri (but not Tause)
Sikaritai–Eritai–Obokuitai–Biritai–Kaiy, Kwerisa
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Tariku are,
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