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Tor-Orya languages

Orya–Tor
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classification North Papuan?
Subdivisions
Glottolog toro1256

The Orya–Tor languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in Indonesia.

The Tor family is clearly established. Its closest relative appears to be Orya.

Stephen Wurm (1975) linked Orya and the Tor languages with the Lakes Plain languages, forming a branch of his Trans–New Guinea phylum. Clouse (1997) found no evidence of such a connection.Malcolm Ross (2005) linked them instead with part of another erstwhile branch of TNG in a Tor–Kwerba proposal. Glottolog accepts only the link with Orya as having been demonstrated.

A purported Wares language is sometimes reported. However, no such language is attested. The Wares people are not known to have a distinct language, and the language of the village of Wares is Mawes.

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Orya–Tor are,




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