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Konda-Yahadian languages

South Bird's Head
South Doberai
Geographic
distribution		 West Irian Jaya
Linguistic classification Trans–New Guinea
  • South Bird's Head
Subdivisions
Glottolog None
sout1516  (South Bird's Head proper)
kond1302  (Konda–Yahadian)
inan1242  (Inanwatan)
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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
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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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