Southeast Papuan languages

The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.

Languages

The languages are as follows:

• Dagan (Meneao Range)
• Owen Stanley Range
• Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau)
• Kwalean (Humene–Uare)
• Manubaran (Mount Brown)
• Mailu–Yareban
• Yareban (Musa River)
• Bauwaki
• Mailuan (Cloudy Bay)

They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:

References