The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related TransâÂÂNew Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River in Province of South Papua, Indonesia:
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) and Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. tikem, toxom for âÂÂheadâÂÂ) or not (e.g. icoxop, iripam for âÂÂearâÂÂ).