Sentani languages
| Sentani | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution |
Papua |
| Linguistic classification |
East Bird's Head – Sentani?
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | sent1261 |
The Sentani languages form a language family of coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border. Sentani had been a branch of Stephen Wurm's proposal for Trans–New Guinea. The languages have lexical similarities with the Asmat–Kamoro languages, but Ross (2005) does not believe these demonstrate a genealogical relationship, and proposes instead that they are related to the East Bird's Head languages.
Sentani stock (3 languages)
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-family are:
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