The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea.
| Foja Range | |
|---|---|
| (Tor–Kwerba) | |
| Geographic distribution | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Northwest Papuan?
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
Languages
All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 Dani–Kwerba proposal, for example. Foley (2018) classifies the Orya–Tor and Kwerbic languages together, as Tor–Kwerba.[1] Usher (2020) adds Nimboran and Mawes, naming the expanded family Foja Range, after the Foja mountain range[2] that passes through all four branches of the family.[3]
- Foja Range
- Orya–Tor
- Nimboran
- Mawes
- West Foja Range (Greater Kwerbic)
- Isirawa
- Masep
- Kapauri–Sause
- Apauwar–Kwerba (Kwerbic)
Typological overview
Even though grammatical gender is present in Tor-Kwerba languages, there is no overt gender marking on nouns.[1]
Pronouns
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are:[1]
| sg | pl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | *ati ~ *ait | *ne(n) |
| 2 | *ame | *ame |
Cognates
Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba words that are widely distributed throughout the family (Foley 2018):[1]
- *nukwe 'eye'
- *tVn 'leg'
- *nen 'louse'
- *uŋis 'sky'
- *ti ~ *it 'tree'
References
External links
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