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Foja Range

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The Foja Range languages, also called Tor-Kwerba in a narrower sense, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages of western New Guinea, named after the Foja Mountains of the region.

Facts
Region
Foja Mountains region of western New Guinea. 1
Proto-Language Status
A reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba pronoun set and shared cognate vocabulary exist for the narrower, more widely accepted Tor-Kwerba core (the Orya-Tor and Kwerbic branches); the broader four-branch Foja Range grouping that adds Nimboran and the extinct Mawes language is Timothy Usher's 2020 proposal and has not reached the same consensus. 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Foja Range languages
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  • Lead section
    They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea.
  • Pronouns section
    Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are:
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