====== Masaweng River ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
The Masaweng River family cossists of two closely-related languages, Momare and Migabac, spoken in the grasslands just north of the Masaweng river in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province (Hooley and McElhanon 1970: 1070, q.v. p. 1081, Suter 2018: 6, q.v.p.4.)

===== Subclassification =====
The internal classification of Masaweng River is as follows:\\
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Masaweng River

Momara

Migabac\\
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Hooley and McElhanon (1970: 1070) give a lexicostatistical figure of 70% between Migabac and Momare.

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===== Sources =====
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Dempwolff (1905) … Ago (Miagabac)

Ray (1919) … Ago after Dempwolff (1905)

Pilhofer (1927-1928) comparative morphology for Huon Tip languages

Pilhofer (1928-1929) 290 comparative terms for Momăḷe and Migabac

McElhanon (1968) 1,440 comparative terms for Momara and Migabac

McElhanon (1968) species terms for Momare and Migabac

McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970) 67 Trans New Guinea comparisons include examples from Migabac and Momare

McEvoy (2002) grammar of Migabac (unobtained)

McEvoy (2003) Migabac serial verbs (unobtained)

McEvoy (2003, 2005) phonology of and (pp. 287-292) 389-term vocabulary for (Southern) Migabac

McEvoy (2004) sketch phonology of Migabac

McEvoy (2008) grammar of Migabac

McEvoy (2012) Migabac dialects

Suter (2018) comparative Huon Tip grammar including (pp. 34-40) Huon Tip object-marking verbs and (pp. 160-173) Huon Tip desinences

===== History of classification =====
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===== Historical phonology =====
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Proto-Masaweng River had … consonants and … vowels as follows:\\
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… initial consonants …\\
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|< - 100px 100px 100px 100px 100px >|
||Masaweng R.|Momare   |Migabac  |Migabac|
||           |McElhanon|McElhanon|McEvoy |
||***…**     |****     |****     |****   |
||*…         |         |         |       |


… medial consonants …\\
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|< - 100px 100px 100px 100px 100px >|
||Masaweng R.|Momare   |Migabac  |Migabac|
||           |McElhanon|McElhanon|McEvoy |
||***…**     |****     |****     |****   |
||*…         |         |         |       |


… final consonants …\\
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|< - 100px 100px 100px 100px 100px >|
||Masaweng R.|Momare   |Migabac  |Migabac|
||           |McElhanon|McElhanon|McEvoy |
||***…**     |****     |****     |****   |
||*…         |         |         |       |


… vowels and diphthongs …\\
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|< - 100px 100px 100px 100px 100px >|
||Masaweng R.|Momare   |Migabac  |Migabac|
||           |McElhanon|McElhanon|McEvoy |
||***…**     |****     |****     |****   |
||*…         |         |         |       |


===== Pronouns =====
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===== Verbal morphology =====
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===== Loans to and from neighboring languages =====
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