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Yele – West New Britain is a tentative language family proposal by Malcolm Ross that unites three languages: Anêm and Ata (Wasi) of western New Britain, and more dubiously Yélî Dnye (Yele) of Rossel Island. These were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable. While Anêm and Ata do appear to be related, Yele may turn out to be an Austronesian language.

Yele – West New Britain
(proposed)
Geographic distribution	New Britain & Rossel Island
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family
Subdivisions	West New Britain ? Yélî Dnye
Glottolog	None

Pronouns

The evidence for the Yele – West New Britain family comes from the pronouns. Each language has two distinct sets of pronouns, and both sets correspond across the three languages. The forms illustrated here are the free pronouns and subject prefixes of Anêm and Ata, and the free and possessive/prepositional pronouns of Yele. Anêm and Ata make a distinction between inclusive and exclusive we. Yele also has dual pronouns which aren't shown.

Anêm
I	ue, a-	excl.	mɯn, mɯ-
		incl.	miŋ, –
thou	nin, ni-	you	–, ŋɯ-
he	lɤxa, u-	they	–, i-
she	sɤxa, i-

Ata
I	eni, a-	excl.	neɣi, ta-
		incl.	ŋeŋe, –
thou	nini, na-	you	ŋiŋi, ŋa-
he	anu, u-	they	aneʔi, i-
she	ani, i-

Yele
I	ɳə, a	we	ɳ͡mo, ɳ͡mɨ
thou	ni, N-	you	n͡mo, n͡me
s/he	–, u	they	–, ji

See also

• Papuan languages

References

• Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History. Michael Dunn, Angela Terrill, Ger Reesink, Robert A. Foley, Stephen C. Levinson. Science magazine, 23 Sept. 2005, vol. 309, p 2072.
• Malcolm Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

На других языках

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- [en] Yele – West New Britain languages

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[fr] Langues yele-nouvelle-bretagne occidentale

Les langues yele-nouvelle-bretagne occidentale sont une proposition de famille de langues papoues parlées en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans les îles de Nouvelle-Bretagne et des Louisiades.

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[it] Lingue yele-nuova britannia occidentale

La famiglia linguistica delle lingue yele-nuova britannia occidentale (Yele – West New Britain in inglese) è un'ipotesi, proposta dal linguista Malcolm Ross, di unificazione in un'unica famiglia di tre lingue isolate: la lingua anem e la lingua peleata (o wasi) parlate nella Nuova Britannia, e la lingua yele dell'isola Rossel. Stephen Wurm, altro importante studioso delle lingue dell'Oceania, aveva suggerito, precedentemente, l'esistenza di una più vasta famiglia (lingue papuasiche orientali) che avrebbe incluso anche queste lingue, ma l'ipotesi sembra oggi non più credibile, visto che anche Ethnologue (16ª edizione del 2009) ha scelto di collocare le tre lingue nella famiglia proposta da Ross[1], abbandonando la classificazione di Wurm, che aveva seguito fino alla 15ª edizione[2].

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