The Engan languages, also called Enga-Kewa-Huli or Enga-Southern Highlands, are a small family of about eleven Papuan languages spoken across the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The family's two branches, a northern Engan branch and a southern Kewa-Huli branch, are only distantly related, a connection proposed by the linguists Franklin and Voorhoeve in 1973; its wider placement within Trans-New Guinea or a separate Papuan Gulf grouping remains uncertain.
Facts
RegionHighlands of Papua New Guinea 1 Proto-Language StatusPartially reconstructed: Usher (2020) reconstructs the Proto-Engan consonant inventory and Engan-proper pronouns; a full family-wide pronoun reconstruction is not yet published 1 Connections
Descends From
Engan is a branch of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, named for Enga Province.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Engan Languages
WikipediaWikipedia: Engan languages, opening paragraph
The Engan languages, or more precisely Enga-Kewa-Huli or Enga, Southern Highland, are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Wikipedia: Engan languages, Pronouns section
Usher (2020) has not yet published reconstruction of Engan as a whole, but has done Engan proper:
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