Foja Range languages
| Foja Range | |
|---|---|
| (Tor–Kwerba) | |
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Northwest Papuan?
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | None |
The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea.
Languages
All the languages had been part of
Dani–Kwerba proposal, for example. Foley (2018) classifies the Orya–Tor and Kwerbic languages together, as Tor–Kwerba.[1] Usher (2020) adds Nimboran and Mawes, naming the expanded family Foja Range, after the Foja mountain range[2] that passes through all four branches of the family.[3]
Typological overview
Even though grammatical gender is present in Tor-Kwerba languages, there is no overt gender marking on nouns.[1]
Pronouns
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are:[1]
Proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns sg pl 1 *ati ~ *ait *ne(n) 2 *ame *ame
Cognates
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba words that are widely distributed throughout the family (Foley 2018):[1]
- *nukwe 'eye'
- *tVn 'leg'
- *nen 'louse'
- *uŋis 'sky'
- *ti ~ *it 'tree'
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ "Foja" is the Dutch spelling, often rendered "Foya" in English, so one might expect that in modern Indonesian orthography it would be "Foya" as well. However, the Indonesian spelling remains "Foja", as it was before the spelling reform. Thus the "j" may be pronounced as either an English "y" or an English "j".
- ^ "New Guinea World". Archived from the original on 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- OCLC 67292782.