The Lakes Plain languages are a family of about ten Papuan languages spoken across the Lakes Plain region of Indonesian New Guinea, treated as one of the world's primary language families. They are notable among Papuan languages for being heavily tonal and for lacking nasal consonants. The family divides into three branches: East Lakes Plain, Tariku and West Lakes Plain.
Facts
RegionLakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea 1 Proto-Language StatusReconstructed: proto-Lakes Plain phonology reconstructed by Clouse (1997) 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Lakes Plain Languages
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The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea.
Consonants subsection
Clouse (1997) reconstructs a typologically remarkable consonant inventory for the ancestor of Lakes Plain, consisting entirely of only five stops:
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