The Engan languages, or more precisely Enga–Kewa–Huli or Enga – Southern Highland , are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches of the family are rather distantly related, but were connected by Franklin and Voorhoeve (1973).
3-520: Angal , or Mendi , is an Engan language complex of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea . Mendi has a pandanus language used during karuka harvest. This Papuan languages –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Engan languages The name "Engan" is often restricted to the northern branch of the family, to those languages transparently related to Enga, but also sometimes to
6-589: The family as a whole. The languages fall into three quite distinct branches: Engan proper, Huli, and Southern Highlands: The Engan family constitutes a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Wurm and of Malcolm Ross , but the evidence for this is weak. Usher links the Engan and Chimbu languages in a Central New Guinea Highlands family. There are a considerable number of resemblances with Wiru . Borrowing has not been ruled out as
9-424: The reason for this, though the pronouns are similar as well. Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: Vowels are *i *e *a *o *u. Pronouns are easy to reconstruct for the northern and southern branches, but much more difficult for Engan as a whole. Ross (2005) has the following for the singular, Wiru has been added for comparison: Usher (2020) has not yet published reconstruction of Engan as
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