The Nuclear South Bird's Head, Core South Bird's Head or East South Bird's Head languages form a small language family of western New Guinea. They either form part of a wider South Bird's Head language family, or may be an independent language family if not related to the Inanwatan and Konda–Yahadian languages.[1]
Nuclear South Bird's Head | |
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East South Bird's Head | |
Geographic distribution | Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesian Papua |
Linguistic classification | ? Trans–New Guinea
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Glottolog | sout1516 |
There are six languages:[2]
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[3]
gloss | Proto-East South Bird's Head |
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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 |