• Source: Kayagar languages

      • 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:

      Atohwaim (Kaugat)
      Gondu River
      Kayagar (Kaygir)
      Tamagario (Arare–Pagai)
      Yogo ('Tamagario')


      Proto-language




      = Pronouns

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      Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:


      = Basic vocabulary

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      Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:


      Vocabulary comparison


      The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) and Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
      The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. tikem, toxom for “head”) or not (e.g. icoxop, iripam for “ear”).


      References




      External links


      Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Gondu River
      (ibid.) Atohwaim

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