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The Border (Tami) languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ...
The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. ...
Malcolm Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. ...
Trans-New Guinea is a family of languages spoken mainly on the island of New Guinea, which comprises the nation of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, Indonesia. ...
Classification
- Border
- Morwap (Elseng) isolate
- Waris family: Waris, Manem, Senggi, Punda-Umeda, Waina, Daonda, Auwe (Simog), Amanab
- Taikat family: Awyi, Taikat
- Bewani family: Ainbai, Umeda, Kilmeri, Ningera, Pagi
Laycock classified Morwap as an isolate, but noted pronominal similarities with Border. Ross included Morwap in Border, but noted that they do not appear to share any lexical similarities. However, the Morwap data is quite poor.
Pronouns The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Border are, -
Exclusive we is a pronoun that indicates the speaker and perhaps other people, but excludes the addressee, as opposed to the inclusive we that includes the addressee. ...
Inclusive we is a pronoun that indicates the speaker, the addressee, and perhaps other people, as opposed to the exclusive we that excludes the addressee. ...
See also The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. ...
Reference - Malcom Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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