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Rasawa–Saponi 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:


Awera

Rasawa–Saponi: Rasawa, ?? Saponi

East Lakes Plain: Foau, Taworta (Diebroud)

Turu: Edopi–Iau–Foi–Turu [a dialect cluster]

Duvle

West Tariku: Fayu, Kirikiri (but not Tause)

SikaritaiEritaiObokuitaiBiritaiKaiy, Kwerisa

Papasena

Doutai, Waritai


The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Tariku are,


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