Kaure–Kosare languages

Kaure–Kosare
	Nawa River
Geographic; distribution	Nawa River, New Guinea
Linguistic classification	a primary language family
Subdivisions	Kaure; Kosare;
Glottolog	None
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The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family spoken along the Nawa River in West Papua, near the northern border with Papua New Guinea.[1] The languages are Kaure and Kosare.

Classification

Kaure and Kosare (Kosadle) are clearly related. There is a history of classifying them with the Kapori–Sause languages. However, Kapori and Sause show no particular connection to the Kaure languages, and may be closer to Kwerba.[1]

Foley (2018) considers a connection with Trans-New Guinea to be promising, but tentatively leaves Kaure-Kosare out as an independent language family pending further evidence.[2]

Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[1]

*m	*n
*p	*t		*k
*b			*g
	*s			*h
*w	*ɽ	[*j]

Coda consonants are stop *C (or more precisely *P) and nasal *N.

*i		*u
*e		*o
*ɛ		*ɔ
*æ	*a

Diphthongs are *ɛi, *ɛu, *ai *au.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[1]

	sg	pl
1	no (?), na-	*wɛN
2	*ha-(nɛ)	?
3	?	?

References

New Guinea World, Nawa River
Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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.

External links

Kaure languages database at TransNewGuinea.org
Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Nawa River

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[ngw-1] New Guinea World, Nawa River

[Foley-NWNG-2] Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.