Southeast Papuan languages

Southeast Papuan
Bird's Tail Papuan Peninsula
Geographic distribution	Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Southeast Papuan
Subdivisions	Koiarian Kwalean Manubaran Yareban–Mailuan Dagan
Language codes
Glottolog	None
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The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.

Languages

The languages are as follows:

• Dagan (Meneao Range)
• Owen Stanley Range
  • Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau)
  • Kwalean (Humene–Uare)
  • Manubaran (Mount Brown)
  • Mailu–Yareban
    • Yareban (Musa River)
    • Bauwaki
    • Mailuan (Cloudy Bay)

They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:

	Owen Stanley		Meneao (Dagan)
	sg	pl	sg	pl
1	*na	?	*n[e/a]	*nu
2	*ga	*ja	*g[e/a]	*j[e/a]
3	*e (?)	*ie (?)	*me	*mV

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