| Southeast Papuan | |
|---|---|
| Bird's Tail Papuan Peninsula | |
| Geographic distribution | Southeastern peninsula ofNew Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
 Map: The Southeast Papuan languages of New Guinea The Southeast Papuan languages Other Trans–New Guinea languages Other Papuan languages Austronesian languages Uninhabited | |
TheSoutheast Papuan orPapuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen smallfamilies ofPapuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of theTrans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.
The languages are as follows:[1]
They have in commonya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG*gi.
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2]
| Owen Stanley | Meneao (Dagan) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sg | pl | sg | pl | |
| 1 | *na | ? | *n[e/a] | *nu |
| 2 | *ga | *ja | *g[e/a] | *j[e/a] |
| 3 | *e (?) | *ie (?) | *me | *mV |