Kayagar languages

Kayagar
	Cook River
Geographic; distribution	Cook River, New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Kayagar–Kolopom Kayagar; ;
Glottolog	kaya1327[1]
	Map: The Kayagar languages of New Guinea The Kayagar languages Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited

The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River of Indonesian New Guinea:[2]

Atohwaim (Kaugat)
Gondu River
- Yogo ('Tamagario')
- Kayagar (Kaygir), Tamagario (Arare–Pagai)

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2][3]

	Gondu River		Atohwaim
	sg	pl	sg	pl
1	*nax	*nep	naxa	nipi, neβi
2	*ax	*akan	axa	aʔani
3	*ek	*wep	–	–

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kayagaric". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
New Guinea World, Gondu River
New Guinea World, Atohwaim

External links

Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Gondu River
(ibid.) Atohwaim

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kayagaric". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[ngw-2] New Guinea World, Gondu River

[3] New Guinea World, Atohwaim