Foja Range languages

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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.

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Foja Range
(Tor–Kwerba)
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationNorthwest Papuan?
  • Foja Range
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Languages

All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 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]

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Proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns
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1 *ati ~ *ait*ne(n)
2 *ame*ame
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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'

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