Bosavi languages

Bosavi
Geographic distribution:	New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Trans–New Guinea Bosavi
Glottolog:	bosa1245[1]
Map: The Bosavi languages of New Guinea   The Bosavi languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Bosavi languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross.

The languages, which are closely related (though they may have only 10–15% of their vocabulary in common), are:

• Bosavi Watershed: Kaluli–Sonia, Aimele (Kware), Kasua, Onobasulu
• Edolo–Beami

They are named after Mount Bosavi. Pronouns are:

	sg	pl
1	*na	*ni-
2	*ga	*gi-
3	*ya	*yi-

Dibiyaso (Bainapi) is lexically similar, but this appears to be due to loans. The nearly extinct Turumsa language was added by Ethnologue 16, though it has more vocabulary in common with the unclassified Doso language.

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bosavi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.