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The Marind–Yaqai (Marind–Yakhai) languages are a well established language family of Papuan languages, spoken by the Marind-anim. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm and Malcolm Ross, and were established as part of the Anim branch of TNG by Timothy Usher.

Marind–Yakhai
Marind
EthnicityMarind people
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
Subdivisions
  • Marind
  • Yaqay
Glottologmari1437
Map: The Marind–Yaqai languages of New Guinea
  The Marind and Yaqai languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

Languages


The languages are:


Proto-language



Phonemes


Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]

*m*n
*p*t*k
*b*d*g
*mb*nd*ŋg
*s*h
*w*j

Vowels are *a *e *i *o *u.


Pronouns


The pronouns are:[1]

sgpl
1 *nok ?
2 *oɣ*eoɣ
3m *anep*anip
3f *anup

Classification


The Marind languages were partially identified by Sidney Herbert Ray and JHP Murray in 1918; the family was filled out by JHMC Boelaars in 1950. It was incorporated into Trans–New Guinea by Stephen Wurm in 1975.

The Boazi languages were formerly classified as Marind.


Evolution


Marind reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma:[3]


See also



Further reading



References


  1. New Guinea World, Fly River
  2. New Guinea World, Marind–Yakhai
  3. Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.



На других языках


- [en] Marind–Yaqai languages

[fr] Langues marind

Les langues marind sont une famille de langues papoues parlées en dans le Sud de la Papouasie indonésienne et en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la province ouest[1].



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