Tonda languages
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Tonda languages form a branch of the Yam language family of southern New Guinea. There are over 10 languages.[1]
Tonda languages share some areal features are shared with the Kolopom languages.[2]
Languages
The Tonda languages are:[1][3]
- Tonda / West Morehead River
- Arammba
- Central Morehead River: Anta, Kómnzo, Wára, Wérè, Kémä, Kánchá
- Warta Thuntai
- Bensbach River
Notes (see Evans 2018: 681):
- Each terminal bullet point lists a different dialect chain.
- Ránmo is linguistically a dialect of Mblafe, but Ránmo speakers consider their language to be a separate, distinct language.
- Wérè is linguistically a dialect of Wára, but Wèré speakers consider their language to be a separate, distinct language.
Numeral typology
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References
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- ↑ a b Hammarström, Harald. (2009) Whence the Kanum Base-6 Numeral System?. Linguistic Typology 13(2). 305-319.
- ↑ West Morehead River
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External links
- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–West Morehead River (under construction 2020)
Further reading
- Grummitt, John and Janell Masters. 2012. A Survey of the Tonda Sub-Group of Languages. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-018.