Bosavi languages
The Bosavi or Papuan Plateau languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher. The family is named after Mount Bosavi and the Papuan Plateau.
| Bosavi | |
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| Papuan Plateau | |
| Geographic distribution | Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Glottolog | bosa1245[1] |
 Map: The Bosavi languages of New Guinea
The Bosavi languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
Languages
The languages, which are closely related (though they may have only 10–15% of their vocabulary in common), are:[2]
- Mount Bosavi: Kaluli–Sonia, Aimele (Kware), Kasua
- Onobasulu
- Mount Sisa: Edolo–Beami
- Dibiyaso (Bainapi)
The unity of the Bosavi languages was quantitatively demonstrated by Evans and Greenhill (2017).[3]
Pronouns
Pronouns are:
sg pl 1 *na *ni- 2 *ga *gi- 3 *ya *yi-
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bosavi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- New Guinea World
- Evans, Bethwyn; Greenhill, Simon (2017). "A combined comparative and phylogenetic analysis of the Bosavi and East Strickland languages" (PDF). 4th Workshop on the Languages of Papua. Universitas Negeri Papua, Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia.
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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