The Border, or Upper Tami, languages are a family of about ten Papuan languages spoken in New Guinea, treated as an independent family within Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans-New Guinea proposal and tentatively placed by some classifications within a wider Northwest Papuan grouping. Its recognized branches are Morwap, Senggi, Upper Tami and Bewani Range. Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan families of northern New Guinea, Border languages lack grammatical gender and lack dual and plural number marking.
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RegionSpans the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border in northern New Guinea 1 Proto-Language StatusPartially reconstructed: Ross (2005) reconstructs pronoun forms for Proto-Border 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Border Languages
WikipediaWikipedia: Border languages (New Guinea), Name section
The Border family is named after the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border, which it spans.
Wikipedia: Border languages (New Guinea), Pronouns section
The pronouns that Ross (2005) reconstructs for Proto-Border are the following:
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