Southwestern Paman languages

Southwest Pama
Geographic
distribution:
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

Subdivisions:
  • Upper
  • Coastal
Glottolog: sout3141[1]

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Southwestern Paman languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

The Southwestern Paman languages are a family of the Paman languages spoken on the western part of the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.

Alpher (1972) accepts Southwestern Pama as a valid node; the classification below is his.[2] R. M. W. Dixon, on the other hand, only accepts a connections between pairs of languages: Yir, as two dialects of a single language, and Koko Bera with Kok Thawa.[3]

Bowern (2011) also lists the extinct Kokiny and Kok-Papángk.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southwest Pama". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Alpher, Barry (1972). "On the genetic subgrouping of the languages of southwestern Cape York Peninsula, Australia". Oceanic Linguistics 11: 67–87. doi:10.2307/3622803.
  3. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. p. xxxii.


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