Central and South New Guinea languages information
Proposed Trans–New Guinea language family
For the independent language-family hypothesis, see South-Central Papuan languages.
Central and South New Guinea
Asmat–Ok
Geographic distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classification
Trans–New Guinea
Central and South New Guinea
Subdivisions
Asmat–Kamoro
Greater Awyu
Mombum
Ok–Oksapmin
Bayono-Awbono?
Somahai?
Glottolog
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Map: The Central and South New Guinea languages of New Guinea
The Central and South New Guinea languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
The Central and South New Guinea languages (CSNG) are a proposed family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG). They were part of Voorhoeve & McElhanon's original TNG proposal, but have been reduced in scope by half (nine families to four) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. According to Ross, it is not clear if the pronoun similarities between the four remaining branches of Central and South New Guinea are retentions for proto-TNG forms or shared innovations defining a single branch of TNG. Voorhoeve argues independently for an Awyu–Ok relationship, and Foley echoes that Asmat may be closest to Awyu and Ok of the TNG languages. Regardless, the four individual branches of reduced Central and South New Guinea are themselves clearly valid families.
Central and South New Guinea (Asmat–Ok)
Asmat–Kamoro family [a recent expansion along the south coast]
Greater Awyu family
Mombum family
Ok–Oksapmin family
Ethnologue (2009) retains only Awyu–Dumut and Ok, calling the branch Ok–Awyu, and places Asmat and Mombum as independent branches of TNG. Loughnane & Fedden (2011) link Ok to the Oksapmin language.[1] However, van den Heuvel & Fedden (2014) argue that Greater Awyu and Greater Ok are not genetically related, but that their similarities are due to intensive contact.[2]
The Somahai languages and Bayono-Awbono may also belong here, but there is little data to go on.
^Loughnane, Robyn and Fedden, Sebastian (2011) 'Is Oksapmin Ok?-A Study of the Genetic Relationship between Oksapmin and the Ok Languages', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31: 1, 1-42.
^van den Heuvel, W. & Fedden, S. (2014). Greater Awyu and Greater Ok: Inheritance or Contact? Oceanic Linguistics 53(1), 1-36. University of Hawai'i Press.
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