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Manubaran languages

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The Manubaran languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around Mount Brown in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of TransNew Guinea.

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Languages

The languages are Doromu and Maria, and are 63% lexically similar.

Proto-language

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Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]

*m*n
*p*t*k
*b*d*g
*s[*h]
*w*j

Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2]

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Basic vocabulary

Usher (2020)

Some lexical reconstructions of Proto-Mount Brown and Proto-Doromu-Koki, as well as Proto-Gebi and Proto-Maria, by Usher (2020) are:[2]

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Ross (2014)

The following basic vocabulary words of Proto-Manubaran and lower-level reconstructions by Malcolm Ross (2014)[3][4][5] are from the Trans-New Guinea database:[6]

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Evolution

Maria reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[7]

  • ama ‘mother’ < *am(a,i)
  • baba(e) ‘father’ < *mbapa
  • kuyaucassowary’ < *ku(y)a
  • ita(isa) ‘tree’ < *inda

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