Southeast Papuan languages

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The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.

Languages

The languages are as follows: They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as: ! !!colspan=2|Owen Stanley !! colspan=2|Meneao (Dagan) ! !!sg!!pl!!sg!!pl !1 !2 !3

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