Mbahaam–Iha languages
The Mbahaam–Iha languages are a pair of Papuan languages spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula of western New Guinea. The two languages, Baham (Mbaham) and Iha, are closely related to each other.
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Geographic distribution | West New Guinea, Bomberai Peninsula |
Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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Glottolog | nucl1641[1] |
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant and vowel inventories as:[2]
*m *n *p *t *k *kʷ *mb *nd *ŋg *ŋgʷ *s *w *r *j
Prenasalized plosives do not occur initially, having merged with the voiceless plosives.
The vowels are *i *u *ɛ *ɔ *a and the diphthongs *iɛ *ɛi.
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the free pronouns as:[2]
sg pl 1excl *[a/ɔ]n [*mbi] 1incl *in 2 *k[a/ɔ] *ki 3 *m[a/ɔ] *mi, *wat
Cognates
Protoforms of the 20 most-stable items[3] in the Swadesh list include the following.[2]
gloss Proto-Mbahaam–Iha *mɛin louse ? two *kiˈra water *kʷiɛr ear *kimi die *[a/ɔ]n I ? liver ? (k(i)jɛp / kɛndɛp) eye *tan hand *kɔmɛn hear *wiˈra, aˈtɔkʷ tree, tree/wood *ˈsɛjir fish *niɛ name *war stone ? tooth *sɔn breast *k[a/ɔ] you ? path *ˈtɔkar bone ? tongue (*mak voice/language)
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nuclear West Bomberai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- New Guinea World, Mbaham–Iha
- Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, Dik Bakker (2008). "Explorations in Automated Language Classification". Folia Linguistica, Vol. 42, no. 2, 331–354
External links
- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Mbahaam–Iha
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