Baining languages

Baining
East New Britain
Ethnicity Baining people
Geographic
distribution		 New Britain
Linguistic classification One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
  • Baining
  • Taulil
Glottolog None
bain1263  (Baining proper)[1]
taul1250  (Taulil–Butam)[2]

The Baining or East New Britain languages are a possible small language family spoken by the Baining people on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable.

The languages are:

Glottolog does not accept that a connection between the two branches has been demonstrated.[1]

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Baining are,

I*ŋawe two*(ŋ)unwe*udu
thou*ŋiyou two*yuyou*ŋan
he*(k)athey two (M)*ipthey*ta
she*(k)ethey two (F)?

The possessive pronouns his and her are *vat and *vet.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Baining proper". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Taulil–Butam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

  • Dunn, Michael; Angela Terrill; Ger Reesink; Robert A. Foley; Stephen C. Levinson (2005). Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History. Science magazine, 23 Sept. 2005, vol. 309, p 2072.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.