Doso–Turumsa | |
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Soari River | |
Geographic distribution | Soari River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Papuan Gulf ?
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | doso1238 |
The Doso–Turumsa languages are a pair of closely related languages spoken along the Soari River of New Guinea, namely Doso and Turumsa, that appear to be closest to the East Strickland languages.[1]
The pronouns correspond very closely. They are:[2]
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1 | *aɾẽ | *aĩ |
2 | *nã | *nu |
3 | *õ | *ũ |
Trans-New Guinea subgroups |
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Eastern Nusantara families and isolates | |||||||||||
Bird's Head Peninsula families and isolates | |||||||||||
Northern Western New Guinea families and isolates | |||||||||||
Central Western New Guinea families and isolates | |||||||||||
Sepik-Ramu basin families and isolates |
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Gulf of Papua and southern New Guinea families and isolates | |||||||||||
Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands families and isolates | |||||||||||
Rossel Island isolate | |||||||||||
Proposed groupings |
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Proto-language |