Manubaran languages

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 Trans–New Guinea.

Manubaran
Mount Brown
Geographic
distribution		Mount Brown, southeastern peninsula of Papua New Guinea:
Central Province
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
  • Papuan Peninsula
    • Owen Stanley Range[1]
      • Manubaran
Glottologmanu1261[2]

Languages

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

Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[3]

*m*n
*p*t*k*ʔ
*b*d*g
*s[*h]
*w*ɾ*j

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

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[3]

sgpl
1 *na*[o/u]na
2 *ja
3 *ina

Evolution

Maria reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:[4]

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

References
  1. New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Manubaran". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. New Guinea World, Mount Brown
  4. Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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