East Kutubuan languages

East Kutubuan
East Kutubu
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea ?

  • East Kutubuan
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: east2499[1]

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

The East Kutubuan languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. There are just two languages,

Fiwaga and Foi,

which are not close to the West Kutubuan languages. These were linked in a "Kutubuan" family by Franklin and Voorhoeve in 1973, but that position has since been abandoned. Although East Kutubuan has proto-TNG vocabulary, Ross considers its inclusion in TNG to be somewhat questionable.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "East Kutubu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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