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Kayagar languages
Trans–New Guinea language group of Indonesia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River in Province of South Papua, Indonesia:[1]
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Proto-language
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[1][2]
Basic vocabulary
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[1]
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Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970)[3] and Voorhoeve (1971, 1975),[4][5] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.[6]
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. tikem, toxom for “head”) or not (e.g. icoxop, iripam for “ear”).
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