Tor-Kwerba languages

Tor-Kwerba languages

Infobox Language family
name=Tor-Kwerba
region=New Guinea
familycolor=Papuan
family=a primary family of Papuan languages
child1=Orya-Tor
child2=Mawes-Kwerba
child3=? "Sause"The Tor-Kwerba languages are an independent family of Papuan languages proposed in 2005 by Malcolm Ross. All the languages had been part of Stephen Würm's Trans-New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit.

Classification

*Orya-Tor
** "Orya (Uria)" isolate
** Tor family: Berike, Bonerif, Dabe, Mander, Itik, Keder, Kwesten, Maremgi, Wares
*Mawes-Kwerba
** "Mawes" isolate
** Kwerba family: Airoran, Bagusa, Kwerba (Sasawa), Trimuris, Kauwera, Kwerba Mamberamo

In earlier classifications the Sause language isolate has been included with these languages, but its classification is uncertain, and was not addressed by Ross.

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Orya-Tor are,

:

ee also

*Papuan languages

References


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