South Bird's Head Family
| South Bird's Head | |
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| South Doberai | |
| Geographic distribution: |
West Irian Jaya |
| Linguistic classification: |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: |
None sout1516 (South Bird's Head proper) kond1302 (Konda–Yahadian) inan1242 (Inanwatan) |
Map: The South Bird's Head languages of New Guinea
The South Bird's Head languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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The South Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are three families of Papuan languages. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.
Ross reconstructs pronouns *na 1sg and *a 2sg, but otherwise the three families have little in common and are not obviously related:
The pronouns are:
3sg *ni is reconstructable for SBH proper. There appears to be both a plural vowel change from *a to *i, as in proto-TNG, and a plural suffix *-ri.
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