Southeast Huon

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

The Southeast Huon Peninsula family consists of at least two closely related languages, Kâte and Mape-Naga, spoken to either side of the Mape river, from the Mongi river in the west to the coast, in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province (McElhanon 1967: 6, Suter 2018: 6, q.v. p.4.).

The internal classification of Southeast Huon is as follows:

Southeast Huon Peninsula

Mape-Naga

Mape

Naga

Kâte

Wemo

Wanac

Parec

Wamorâ

Mâgobineng

McElhanon (1967:6-9) gives a lexicostatistical figure of 65% between Kâte (presumably Wemo) and Mape.

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Zöller (1891) … (unobtained)

Grube (1895) Kai (unobtained)

Ray (1919) …

Dempwolff (1924-1925) Kâte kinship system (unobtained)

Keysser (1925) dictionary of Kâte (unobtained)

Pilhofer (1926-1927) Kâte (unobtained)

Pilhofer (1926-1927) Kâte (unobtained)

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

Pilhofer (1928-1929) 290 comparative terms for Kâte, Naga, Mape, Wamoḷa and Mâgob

Pilhofer (1933) grammar of Kâte

Pilhofer (1953) vocabulary of Kâte (unobtained)

Schneuker (1962) Kâte (unobtained)

McElhanon (1968) 1,518 comparative terms for Wemo, Wanac, Parec, Mape-Nigâc, Mape, Naga, Wamorâ and Bamotâ (Mâgobineng)

McElhanon (1968) species terms for Mape and Naga

McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970) 67 Trans New Guinea comparisons include examples from Mâgobineng, Wâmora, Wemo, Naga, West Mape and East Mape

McElhanon (1974) Kâte glottal stop

McElhanon (2012) 1,907 comparative terms for Wemo

McElhanon (2012) 830 comparative terms for Wemo

Johnson (1972) Kâte verbs

Flierl and Strauss (1977) dictionary of Kâte

Smith (1988) Morobe counting systems (unobtained)

Sifurna (1997) Mape verbs (unobtained)

Suter (1997) comparison of Kâte verbal desinences with those of Kovai, Ono and a number of other New Guinean languages

Suter (2010) Kâte ergative

Suter (2012) …

Suter (n.d.) Huon labiovelars

Suter (n.d.) Huon case enclitics

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

The Southeast Huon Peninsula family was first established as the Eastern Family of the coterminous East Huon Stock by McElhanon (1967: 6-9.)

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