Family of Trans–New Guinea languages
The Paniai Lakes languages, also known as the Wissel Lakes or Wissel Lakes – Kemandoga River, are a small family of closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the Paniai Lakes region of the highlands of Western New Guinea in the Paniai Lakes region of Papua. Foley (2003) considers their Trans–New Guinea status to be established.
Languages.
The languages are:
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They are most closely related to the Dani languages, Amung and Dem.
Pronouns.
Independent pronouns and possessive prefixes are:
Vocabulary comparison.
The following basic vocabulary words are from Larson &amp; Larson (1972) and Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. "homa", "huma" for “stone”) or not (e.g. "bodiya", "usa" for “fire”).
Evolution.
Paniai Lakes reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are:
Ekari language:
Moni language:
References.
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