East Geelvink Bay languages
East Geelvink Bay | |
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East Cenderawasih | |
Geographic distribution | Papua Province, Indonesia |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
Glottolog | geel1240 |
The East Geelvink Bay or East Cenderawasih languages are a
Languages
- East Geelvink Bay
- Turunggare, Burate
- Barapasi
- Bauzi–Demisa, Nisa-Anasi (Bapu)
- Central
Of these, only Turunggare, Barapasi, and Bauzi are known well enough to demonstrate a relationship, though they are all lexically similar (> 60%). The unclassified
Bauzi is the best documented East Geelvink Bay language, but may or may not be representative of the Geelvink Bay family as a whole.[1]
Classification
A relationship between
Clouse (1997)
meaning | Proto-Lakes Plain | Bauzi | Demisa |
---|---|---|---|
'eye' | *kudatiCV | (faxo) | halukwa |
'muscle' | *tV | nubu | (betinukwa) |
'water' | *deida | vaɔ | wɔte |
'fire' | *kudaide | vua | gwa |
'tree' | *kuCV | uto | |
'black' | *kVCa | gihot | giho |
'child' | *tau-bri | data | dataβi |
'we' | *ai | i | |
'go, walk' | *kidia | la | |
'blow' | *pudV | fɛu | |
'feces' | *pade | haɛ | |
'arrow' | *poka | fɔ | |
'bad' | Proto-Tariku: *ɸVra | fait |
However, in his 2005 classification based on comparative evidence from pronouns, Malcolm Ross treats all three groups as separate families, with Yawa tentatively placed in an extended West Papuan family.
Typology
Verbal morphology in the East Geelvink Bay family is less complex than that of
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–East Geelvink Bay are,
I *e we *i thou *o you *u s/he *a they ?
Basic vocabulary
Basic vocabulary of selected East Cenderawasih languages (
East Cenderawasih family basic vocabulary gloss BarapasiBauzi Demisa Tunggare ‘bird’ de bume bijana dinarate ‘blood’ nosi vasɛa nahabi nahavei ‘bone’ para fa heta ha ‘eat’ ai æ ɣayo ‘egg’ moʔa ɔɔ mwa ʔoʔo ‘eye’ aronua faxo halukwa hanua ‘fire’ awa vua gwa urehe ‘give’ wai lɔ nore ‘ground’ deta bake bæi baʔe ‘hair’ nawa ohuta ohutai ohitaʔi ‘head’ osi ohula ohuda ʔohaha ‘I’ emi e emdə ei ‘leg’ naro naɔ naro nal ‘louse’ woa vɔa yo ʔua ‘man’ doro dam damateha date ‘name’ here ɛ ʔe ‘one’ orari væmtɛa natudüe duaʔa ‘see’ ute aa maʔai ‘stone’ aea kɛ ɛdu hahia ‘sun’ wapao ala arɔ au ‘tooth’ moru mo molu mou ‘tree’ auma uto uto-me ‘two’ apimi bɛhæsu utahu amaite ‘water’ waro vaɔ wɔte mana ‘we’ i-me i i ‘you (pl)’ u-mi u wi
The following basic vocabulary words are from Clouse (1997)[2] and Voorhoeve (1975),[3] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[4]
gloss BauziDemisaBarapasiTunggarehead dauha; ohula ohuda osi ʔohaha hair ohuta ohutai nəwa ohitaʔi ear dogoi hema eye fako; faxo halukwa aronua hanua nose ɔmtɔ omata tooth mõ moru mou tongue iso itsa leg nabaː; nao naɾo naro nal louse vɔa; vwa yo woa ʔua dog vɛm; veme nimi weme pig doho; dɔhɔ beiji doho bird bume; bumɛ bijana de dinarate egg ʔo; ɔɔ mwa moʔa ʔoʔo blood vasɛa; veiso nahabi nosi nahavei bone fa; oveha heta para ha skin sogoba; sɔkɔba hiɔ terebaʔa isaʔa breast ahudɛ ubɾa tree uto auma uto-me man data doro date sky asum asunawa sun ala; ala(meoho) aɾɔ wapao au moon ala aɾo water valo; vaɔ wɔte waro mana fire üwa; vua gwa awa urehe stone kɛ; khe ɛdu aea hahia name ɛ; ele here ʔe eat æ; udeʔa aire ghayo one væmtɛa; vamtia natudüe orari duaʔa two beasu; bɛhæsu utahu apimi amaite
See also
- Papuan languages
- Districts of Papuafor a list of districts and villages with respective languages
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ ISBN 0858834421.
- doi:10.15144/PL-B31
- ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
- OCLC 67292782.