Demta–Sentani languages
Demta–Sentani | |
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Demta – Lake Sentani | |
Geographic distribution | East Bird's Head – Sentani ?
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Glottolog | sent1261 |
The Demta–Sentani languages form a language family of coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border.
Languages
The term 'Sentani' is ambiguous. It may be used in a wider sense, including Demta, in a narrow sense (Sentani proper) excluding Demta – either as an unrelated language family or as a branch of Demta–Sentani – or for the Sentani language itself. Usher distinguishes these three scopes as 'Demta – Sentani Lake', '
Classification
Demta–Sentani was a branch of
- C. Sentani an- ‘eat’ < *na-
- C. Sentani mikæ ‘vomit’ (n.) < *mVkV[C]
- C. Sentani mu ‘penis’ < *mo
- W. Sentani, Tabla oto ‘leg’ < *k(a,o)ndok
- Tabla miŋ, C. Sentani mi ‘louse’ < *iman
- C. Sentani mi- ‘come’ < *me-
Ross (2005) does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship, and proposes instead that the Demta–Sentani languages are related to the
The connection between Demta and the Sentani languages is not supported by Søren Wichmann (2013)'s automated comparison.[4]
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-family are:
I *də exclusive we *me inclusive we *e thou *wa you ? s/he *nə they ?
Comparative pronouns in Sentani languages:[3]
pronoun Sentani Tabla Nafri Sowari 1s də(yæ) də te(ye) mini 2s wə(yæ) wə we(ye) we 3s nə(yæ) nə ne(ye) ngane 1p.excl me(yæ) e me ngama 1p.incl e(yæ) 2p mə(yæ) we mai me 3p nə(yæ) nə ne(ye) kumbi
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) (for
gloss SowariNafriSentanihead tuniyiŋgan yebu faləm hair pioupiə mwa uma eye kariŋgewa iro i joko nose face tooth itini cə itəha leg nəmbia oto oro louse ami mi dog aweŋgen yoku yoku pig nifie obo obo bird ey au aye egg kuku to do blood owar sa oki bone ari iro po skin yow yim wa wa breast nimə tree ya-yeŋgan ono no man watuga to do sun omar sipo hu water yarim bu fire payn i i stone kara tuka duka name aror to do eat emaŋo anforu anəi-ko one upu mbe əmbai two pugwai be be
See also
- Papuan languages
- Districts of Papuafor a list of districts and villages with respective languages
References
- ^ New Guinea World, Demta – Lake Sentani
- ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages Archived 2020-11-25 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
- doi:10.15144/PL-B16
- doi:10.15144/PL-B31
- ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.