The Pahoturi River languages are a small family of Papuan languages spoken around the Pahoturi ( Paho River ). This family includes eight language varieties including Agöb (Dabu), Em, Ende, Idan, Idi , Idzuwe, Kawam, and Taeme, which are spoken in the Pahoturi River area south of the Fly River , just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages . Idzuwe is no longer spoken. Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family, though more recent work has classified Pahoturi River as an independent family within the region.
5-553: The Agöb languages are a group of Pahoturi languages spoken in eastern Morehead Rural LLG , Western Province , Papua New Guinea . The language varieties include Agöb (or Dabu ), Ende , and Kawam . Languages in this group, along with the Idi language , form a dialect chain with the Idi and Agob dialects proper at the ends of the chain. The following phonology is of the Ende dialect. Ende
10-423: A dialect chain . It is assumed that Em is more closely related to Agob and Ende, while Idan and Idzuwe are more closely related to Idi and Taeme . Pahoturi River languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below. Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are: Proto-Pahoturi River Lindsey lists
15-451: Is a language spoken primarily in the villages of Kinkin, Limol, and Malam by 600 to 1000 speakers. Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels. This Papuan languages –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pahoturi language Some Pahoturi River speakers were originally hunter-gatherers, but have recently shifted to becoming gardeners. Wurm (1975) and Ross (2005) suggest that
20-660: The Pahoturi languages may be related to the Tabo (Waia) language just north of the Fly delta. However, they present no evidence, and the pronouns do not match. Evans and colleagues (2018) classify the Pahoturi River languages as an independent language family. Five of the varieties have traditionally been grouped into the following two language groups: Preliminary work on the language family suggests that these varieties form
25-406: The following pronouns for each of the language varieties in the family. (1.nsg.excl) (1.nsg.incl) (1.nsg.excl) (1.nsg.incl) (1.nsg.excl) (1.nsg.incl) (1.nsg.excl) (1.nsg.incl) The Pahoturi River languages are all under various states of documentation. The following table lists some general lexical, grammatical, textual, and typological resources that have been identified for each of
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