| Nuclear South Bird's Head | |
|---|---|
| East South Bird's Head | |
| Geographic distribution | Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesian Papua |
| Linguistic classification | ?Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | sout1516 |
TheNuclear South Bird's Head,Core South Bird's Head orEast South Bird's Head languages form a small language family of western New Guinea. They either form part of a widerSouth Bird's Head language family, or may be an independent language family if not related to theInanwatan andKonda–Yahadian languages.[1]
There are six languages:[2]
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[3]
| gloss | Proto-East South Bird's Head |
|---|---|
| body hair/feather | *karar |
| ear | *qer[aw] |
| nose | *mitob |
| tooth | *resin |
| tongue | *nun |
| foot/leg | *sor |
| blood | *a[m/p]as |
| bone | *toq |
| breast | *did |
| louse | *kon |
| bird | *kanen |
| egg | *wuk |
| tree | *qemin |
| man | *rabin |
| sun | *teg[ed] |
| moon | *mo[k/q] |
| water | *sai |
| path | *aum |
| one | *onat |
| two | *[ou]g |