Sentani languages
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| Sentani | |
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| Demta – Lake Sentani | |
| Geographic distribution | Papua |
| Linguistic classification | North Papuan?
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | sent1261[1] |
The Sentani languages form a language family of coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Wurm's proposal for Trans–New Guinea. The languages have lexical similarities with the Asmat–Kamoro languages, but Ross (2005) does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship, and proposes instead that they are related to the East Bird's Head languages.
The Sentani family is not accepted by Søren Wichmann (2013), who splits it into two separate groups.[2]
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Classification[edit]
Sentani stock (3 languages)
Pronouns[edit]
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-family are:
I *də exclusive we *me inclusive we *e thou *wa you ? s/he *nə they ?
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sentanic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
