Southeast Papuan languages
The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea phylum.Languages
The languages are as follows:
- Dagan
- Owen Stanley Range
- *Koiarian
- *Kwalean
- *Manubaran
- *Mailu–Yareban
- **Yareban
- **Bauwaki
- **Mailuan
They have in common ya for 'you' instead of proto-TNG *gi.Pronouns
Usher reconstructs the pronouns as:
