Koiarian languages

Koiarian
Geographic distribution:	Southeastern peninsula of New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Trans–New Guinea Koiarian
Subdivisions:	Koiaric Baraic
Glottolog:	koia1260[1]

The Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/^[2] Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are sometimes included in a speculative Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea (TNG), but the Southeast Papuan families have not been shown to be any more closely related to each other than they are to other TNG families.

The languages are:

• Koiaric branch: Grass Koiari, Mountain Koiari–Koitabu
• Baraic branch: Barai–Namiae, Ese (Managalasi), Ömie

Pronouns are:

	sg	pl
1	?	*no
2	*a	*ya
3	*ahu	*yabu

1sg is Koiaric *da (= nda?) or maybe *di, Baraic *na.

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Koiarian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh

• 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.