Border languages (New Guinea)
Papuan language family found in West Papua (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal.
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Tami River – Bewani Range | |
Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Northwest Papuan?
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Glottolog | bord1247 |
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Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan language families of northern New Guinea, Border languages do not have grammatical gender or number (dual and plural forms).[1]