Guhu-Samane language
| Guhu-Samane | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000 census)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Dialects |
Sekare
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ghs |
| Glottolog |
guhu1244[2] |
Guhu-Samane, also known as Bia, Mid-Waria, Muri, Paiawa, Tahari, is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language that is related to the Binanderean family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005).
Dialects
Smallhorn (2011:131) gives the following dialects.
- Kipu (most widely spoken)
- Bapi
- Garaina
- Sekare
- Sinaba
References
- ↑ Guhu-Samane at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guhu-Samane". 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.
- Smallhorn, Jacinta Mary. 2011. The Binanderean languages of Papua New Guinea: reconstruction and subgrouping. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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