Southeast Huon
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
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.).
Subclassification
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.
Sources
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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
History of classification
The Southeast Huon Peninsula family was first established as the Eastern Family of the coterminous East Huon Stock by McElhanon (1967: 6-9.)
Historical phonology
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Proto-Southeast Huon Peninsula had … consonants and … vowels as follows:
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| Southeast Huon | Mape | Naga | Wemo | Wamorâ | Bamotâ |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | Flierl/Strauss | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||||
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| Southeast Huon | Mape | Naga | Wemo | Wamorâ | Bamotâ |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | Flierl/Strauss | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||||
| *… |
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…:
| Southeast Huon | Mape | Naga | Wemo | Wamorâ | Bamotâ |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | Flierl/Strauss | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||||
| *… |
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| Southeast Huon | Mape | Naga | Wemo | Wamorâ | Bamotâ |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | Flierl/Strauss | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||||
| *… |
Pronouns
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Verbal morphology
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Loans to and from neighboring languages
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