Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
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.)
The internal classification of Masaweng River is as follows:
Masaweng River
Momara
Migabac
Hooley and McElhanon (1970: 1070) give a lexicostatistical figure of 70% between Migabac and Momare.
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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
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Proto-Masaweng River had … consonants and … vowels as follows:
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… initial consonants …
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Masaweng R. | Momare | Migabac | Migabac |
McElhanon | McElhanon | McEvoy | |
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… medial consonants …
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Masaweng R. | Momare | Migabac | Migabac |
McElhanon | McElhanon | McEvoy | |
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… final consonants …
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Masaweng R. | Momare | Migabac | Migabac |
McElhanon | McElhanon | McEvoy | |
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… vowels and diphthongs …
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Masaweng R. | Momare | Migabac | Migabac |
McElhanon | McElhanon | McEvoy | |
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