Yareban languages
| Yareban | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution |
Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Glottolog | yare1250 |
The Yareban languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are sometimes included in a speculative Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea (TNG), but the Southeast Papuan families have not been shown to be any more closely related to each other than they are to other TNG families.
The languages are,
Barijian is suggested by lexicostatistics in Dutton (1971). The only pronouns which are known in enough languages to reconstruct are na 1sg and a 2sg, which are common to all Yareban languages.
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