====== Paniai Lakes ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
The Paniai Lakes family, also known as Wissel Lakes or Wissel Lakes-Kemandoga, consist of at least four languages spoken in the western highlands of Indonesia's Papua province.

===== Subclassification =====
The internal classification of Paniai Lakes is as follows:\\
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Paniai Lakes

Moni

Central Paniai Lakes

Ekagi

Auye

Wodani\\
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According to Moxness (2002: 6-7,) Dao is a dialect of Auye.\\
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Larson and Larson (1972: 87-88) provide lexicostatistical figures as follows:

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|       |          |  Moni  |   Wodani   |  Wodani  |   Wodani   |    Ekagi    |    Ekagi    |
|       |          |        |  U. Mbij.  |  Keman.  |  L. Mbij.  |  Paniai L.  |  Tigi Lake  |
| Moni  |          |  ---   |    41.8    |   40.1   |    38.6    |    27.5     |    28.6     |
| Wodani| U. Mbij. |  41.8  |    ---     |   ---    |    ---     |    51.51    |    51.1     |
| Wodani| Keman.   |  40.1  |    ---     |   ---    |    ---     |    51.6     |    50.5     |
| Wodani| L. Mbij. |  38.6  |    ---     |   ---    |    ---     |    52.8     |    51.7     |
| Ekagi | Paniai L.|  27.5  |    51.1    |   51.6   |    52.8    |     ---     |     ---     |
| Ekagi | Tigi Lake|  28.6  |    51.1    |   50.5   |    51.7    |     ---     |     ---     |

===== Sources =====
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===== Historical phonology =====
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===== Pronouns =====
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===== Verbal morphology =====
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