The Anim or Fly River languages are a family of 17 Papuan languages spoken in south-central New Guinea along the Fly River, in parts of both Papua New Guinea and Indonesia's Merauke and Mappi regencies, established by linguists Timothy Usher and Edgar Suter in 2015. The family's name derives from the Fly River and from the reconstructed Proto-Anim word anim, meaning people, and it divides into four main branches: Inland Gulf, Tirio, Boazi and Marind-Yaqai. It is tentatively classified within the broader Trans-New Guinea languages.
Facts
RegionSouth-central New Guinea, in the area of the Fly River. 1 Proto-Language StatusProto-Anim (also called Proto-Fly River) has been reconstructed, including its consonant and vowel inventory, pronouns, and a lexicon, by Usher and Suter (2015) and revised by Usher (2020). 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Anim languages
WikipediaIntroduction, first sentence
The Anim or Fly River languages are a language family in south-central New Guinea established by Usher & Suter (2015).
Lexicon section
Proto-Anim lexical reconstructions by Usher & Suter (2015) are:
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