Tirio languages

Tirio
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

  • Tirio
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: tiri1259[1]

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Map: The Tirio languages of New Guinea
  The Tirio languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Tirio languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The moribund language Abom would appear to be the most divergent, sharing only an eighth of its lexicon with the others, which have about 40% in common:

Pronouns are only available for Tirio itself (Makayam).

References

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


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